Word Meanings - KAMALA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree used for dyeing silk. It is violently

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• DUSTY
  1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak. 2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white. Dusty miller
• DYER
  One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
• DYEHOUSE
  A building in which dyeing is carried on.
• DYEING
  The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.
• DYE
  To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool , to dye firmly; to imbue
• DYEWOOD
  Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.
• DYESTUFF
  A material used for dyeing.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• VIOLENTLY
  In a violent manner.
• HAIRSPLITTING
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.
• HAIRSTREAK
  A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).
• HAIRSPRING
  The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• BEDYE
  To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.
• WOOL-DYED
  Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece- dyed; ingrain.
• OVERDYE
  To dye with excess of color; to put one color over . Shak.
• STADIA HAIRS; STADIA WIRES
  In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.