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1. aal, n. View full entry 1798
...The noni or Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia. Also: the reddish dye obtained from this plant, used (esp. formerly) in India to colour cotton fabrics. Cf. Morinda...
2. adjective, adj. and n. View full entry 1794
...Dyeing. Of a dye or colour: impermanent without an added basis or mordant. Cf. substantive2c....
3. after-chrome, adj. View full entry 1904
...attrib. Used in or relating to the process of applying a mordant to an already dyed material; designating this process; (of a dye) subjected to or requiring after-chroming....
4. age, v. View full entry 1830
...trans.Textiles. To fix (mordants, colours, cloth, etc.) by the process of ageing (ageing2). Also intr.: to undergo this process....
5. ageing, n. View full entry 1830
...Textiles. The action or process of fixing the colours and mordants in cloth by exposing it to the action of a warm, moist atmosphere or by running it through steam....
6. album graecum, n. View full entry 1584
...The dry white excrement of a dog, hyena, or other bone-eating carnivore, esp. when used as an ingredient in medicinal preparations or in dyeing and tanning....
7. alcanna, n. View full entry 1526
...The henna plant, Lawsonia inermis (family Lythraceae), native chiefly to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and South Asia, the leaves and young shoots of which are dried...
8. Aleppo, n. View full entry 1698
...(in full Aleppo oak gall) a hard nut-like gall that forms on any of several oaks (esp. the gall or dyer's oak, Q. lusitanica), in response to the...
9. alizari, n. View full entry 1769
...The root of the either of two plants of the genus Rubia used to produce the red dye madder, wild madder, R. peregrina, and common madder, R....
10. alizarin, n. and adj. View full entry 1827
...Chem. An orange-red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, originally extracted from madder root (genus Rubia) and subsequently synthesized from anthracene....
11. alkanet, n. View full entry 1343
...A red dye obtained from the root of the plant Alkanna tinctoria (see sense 2), and used for various purposes including dyeing cloth and (now esp.) as a...
12. alkanet, n. View full entry ?c1425
...The southern European plant, Alkanna tinctoria (family Boraginaceae), having blue flowers and a blackish root from which a red dye is obtained (see sense 1); also...
13. alterant, adj. and n. View full entry 1794
...Dyeing. A substance which is applied to a material to produce a permanent alteration in its colour, esp. after the previous application of a mordant. Now rare....
14. alum, n.1 View full entry a1398
...An astringent mineral salt, typically occurring as colourless or whitish crystals, that is used as a mordant for dyeing, in tanning, for sizing paper and fireproofing materials, in water purification, and in...
15. alum, v. View full entry ?a1425
...trans. To infuse or impregnate with alum; to treat or coat with alum....
16. aluming, n. View full entry 1583
...The action of alum...
17. aluminium sulphate in aluminium, n. and adj. View full entry 1866
...a white to colourless crystalline solid used in dyeing as a mordant, in paper manufacture, and as a flocculating agent in the purification of drinking water and treatment of sewage; cf. ...
18. amarant(h), n. View full entry 1888
...A moderately fast red azo dye used for dyeing textiles and as a biological stain and food colouring....
19. anatta | anatto, n. View full entry 1667
...An orange-red dye, procured in Central America from the waxy pulp surrounding the seeds of the Bixa orellana; used in dyeing, and for colouring cheese....
20. anil, n. View full entry 1712
...The Indigo shrub; the native name of the E. Indian species (Indigofera tinctoria); but in Bot. the trivial name of the W. Indian Indigo (I. anil)....
