camwood

• Red comes next to this which is mostly obtained of camwood, another domestic employment of the women. —  Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
• Boil half a pound of camwood (in a bag) in two gallons of water, for fifteen minutes. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• Of dyes and dyewoods, she has indigo, camwood, harwood, and the materials for the best blue, brown, red, and yellow colors. —  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• This method is more particularly applicable to such dye-stuffs as camwood, cutch, logwood, madder, fustic, etc., the colouring principles of which have some affinity for the wool fibre and will directly combine with it. —  The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
• The type of this growth is the red camwood-tree, with its white flower of the sweetest savour. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

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