logwood in English

noun
1
a spiny Caribbean tree of the pea family, the dark heartwood of which yields hematoxylin and other dyes.
The early settlers were attracted by the logwood , from which was extracted dyes used by the Lancashire cotton industry.

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1. In 1726 Daniel Defoe described a tradesman involved in the "buying of cochineal, indigo, galls, shumach, logwood, fustick, madder, and the like" as both dry-salter and salter.

2. The Salters' Livery Company tells us that "some of the members who were salt traders were also 'Drysalters' and dealt in flax, hemp, logwood, cochineal, potashes and chemical preparations."

3. Copper dissolved in the vitriolic acid forms crystals of a blot colour, called blue Copperas. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry Joseph Priestley Boil the logwood for 30 minutes in a gallon of water, and then add the Copperas and lampblack.