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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stain made by iron-rust, or by the tincture of iron, as on cloth or clothing.
  • noun An appearance like the stain of iron produced on the coffee-plant in Venezuela, and apparently also in Jamaica, by the fungus Depazea maculosa, in the form of circular or elliptical blotches.

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