Alkanet: alternatives and connections

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive…

A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is…

the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots

A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up t…

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of…

Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.

A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colco…

Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth…

Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead…

That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too…

Color produced by dyeing.

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue;…