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Logwood

noun

Very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye.

Spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye. Synonyms: bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree.

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... with a great salt-marsh behind it. It has a sort of little jetty, which constitutes its claim to the title of port; and two or three small merchant-vessels were lying there, taking in cargoes of logwood (the staple product of the district), mahogany, hides, and deerskins. The sight of these latter surprised us; but we found on enquiry that numbers of deer as well as horned cattle inhabit the thinly-peopled districts round the shores of the Mexican Gulf, and flourish ...

— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor

... been grappled by intoxicants, he is under such headway that your attempt to stop him would be very much like running up the track with a wheelbarrow to stop a Hudson River express train. What you call an inebriate nowadays is not a victim to wine or whiskey, but to logwood and strychnine and nux vomica. All these poisons have kindled their fires in his tongue and brain, and all the tears of a wife weeping cannot extinguish the flames. Instead of marrying a man to reform him, let him reform first, and then give him time to see ...

— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage

... logwood of the size of a walnut in 1/2 cup (4 oz.) of hot water. Apply hot to wood repeatedly until desired ...

— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes

... it. It would be a good use for old tin saucepans, and various other house utensils which have come to a state of mischievousness instead of usefulness. Ink gives various shades of gray according to its strength, but it would be cheaper to purchase it in the form of logwood than as ink. ...

— Hand-Loom Weaving - A Manual for School and Home • Mattie Phipps Todd

... COLOR OF BLACK CLOTH.—If a coat, clean it well, then boil from two to four ounces of logwood in your copper, or boiler, for half an hour; dip your coat in warm water, and squeeze it as dry as you can, then put it into the copper and boil it for half an hour. Take it out, and add a piece of green copperas, about the size of a horse-bean; boil ...

— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

Words linked to "Logwood" : genus Haematoxylum, logwood tree, Haematoxylon, wood, Haematoxylum, genus Haematoxylon, blackwood, campeachy, blackwood tree