archil
Americannoun
noun
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The British came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil, a special ink that was used in British clothes manufacturing.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024
If the red color of the wool is due to archil or cudbear, it is extracted by hydrochloric acid, which is colored red.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Roccella, rok-sel′a, n. a genus of parmeliaceous lichens, yielding dyers' archil or orchil.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The lower part from a was filled with water tinged blue, or rather purple, with the juice of turnsole, or archil.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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