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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A European plant (Reseda luteola) having long spikes of small, yellowish-green flowers and yielding a yellow dye. Also called weld2.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as Dyer's broom.
- n. (Bot.) See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
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Tools of the Trade
A list of tools whose names indicate the trades of those that use them, beginning with carpenter's square.
carpenter's square, plumber's friend, chef's hat, butcher's knife, pipefitter's square, plumber's rule, lineman's pliers, tailor's chalk, potter's earth, potter's clay, potter's wheel, barrister's bookcase and 71 more...
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In The Colorhouse
A colorhouse - a manufactory of colors for tints, dyes, pigments, paints, glazes, &c. Terms associated with the science and history of colormaking.
All sorts of things went into color...colorhouse, Turkey red, dyebath, woad, ocher, lead white, mordant, Naples yellow, zaffer, kiln, vat, pot and 298 more...
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