1) Blue dye 2) Blue dyestuff 3) Dyestuff 4) Herb or blue dye 5) Herb yielding a blue dye 6) Kin of anil and indigo 7) Old World blue dye 8) Pictish pigment
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1) Dye
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[AM] WOAD (1300 AM) is a radio station licensed to Jackson with an urban gospel format. WOAD is owned by Alpha Media through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. ==History== The 1300kHz frequency was assigned the WRBC call letters for several years. Around 1978, the transmitter site was rebuilt and call letters were changed to WKXI-AM. In Mar...
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broad-leafed plant yielding blue dye
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• (n.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. • (n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dy...
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(Isatis tinctoria), biennial or perennial herb, in a genus of about 80 species in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), formerly grown as a source of ...
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A plant in the mustard family that yields blue dye, or the blue dye itself.
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1. <botany> An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue colouring matter derived from its leaves. ... 2. A blue dyestuff, or colouring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in...
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A blue dye the Celts used to paint their skins in order to instil fear in the enemy. A very smelly process for preparing the colour which turns from green to blue on immediate oxidation in light. Pictii meant painted
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Woad noun [ Middle English
wod , Anglo-Saxon
wād ; akin to Dutch
weede , German
waid , Old High German
weit , Danish
vaid ,
veid , Swedish
veide , Latin
vitrum .] [ Written also
wad , and
wade .]
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Woad (Isatis tinctoria) is a biennial herbaceous plant of the family Cruciferae, native to Europe and north Asia but not to Britain. The stem is erect and smooth attaining a height of one metre and bears stalkless arrow- shaped leaves and elongated clusters of small yellow flowers.
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Produced from the leaves of Jsatis tinctoria which was extensively cultivated in Britain from very early times. It was replaced by the arrival of indigo. The two colours are so similar in chemical composition, that it is almost impossible to differentiate them in old paintings.
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[
n] - a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant 2. [n] - any of several herbs of the genus Isatis
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noun any of several herbs of the genus Isatis
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Biennial plant native to Europe, with arrow-shaped leaves and clusters of small yellow flowers. It was formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from its leaves. Ancient Britons used the blue dye as a body paint in battle. (Genus
Isatis tinctoria, family Cruciferae.)
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