archil

[ ahr-kil ]

noun

1. orchil.

archil

/ ˈɑːtʃɪl /

noun

1. a variant spelling of orchil

Example Sentences

In the preparation of archil liquor the principles which yield the dye are separated from the ligneous tissue of the lichens, agitated with a hot ammoniacal solution, and exposed to the action of air.

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When the electric spark was taken in it, it was confined by a quantity of water tinged blue with the juice of archil, but the colour remained unchanged.

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Dyers being well aware of this, are in the habit when mistakes occur of bringing up to shade with soluble dye-stuffs--archil, indigo extract, and such like.

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If a wine colored with archil and one colored with cudbear are treated treated according to Romei's method, the former gives, with basic lead acetate, a blue, and the latter a fine violet precipitate.

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Take a little pinch of archil, and put some boiling-hot water upon it, add to it a very little lump of pear-lash.

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