Definitions for alkanets

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alkanets al·ka·net

Spelling: [al-kuh-net]

IPA: /ˈæl kəˌnɛt/

Alkanets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in alkanets (aaeklnst).

Definitions for alkanets

noun

1. a European plant, Alkanna tinctoria, of the borage family.
2. the root of this plant, yielding a red dye.
3. the dye itself.
4. any of several similar hairy plants, as the bugloss, Anchusa officinalis, or a puccoon of the genus Lithospermum.

Origin of alkanets

1300-50; Middle English Old Spanish alcaneta, equivalent to alcan(a) henna (plant) (Medieval Latin alchanna Arabic al the + hinnā̉ henna) + -eta diminutive suffix

Examples for alkanets

Or boil in the milk a very small muslin bag with alkanet tied up in it.

Take out carefully the bags of alkanet, and lay them on a saucer.

Then put in, as a colouring, some small bits of alkanet tied in a thin muslin bag.

Wax tinged with alkanet root, and applied to the marble hot enough to melt it freely.

Then remove the bag of alkanet, (which may be used again for the same purpose,) and put the oil into clear glass lamps.

The price of alkanet does not exceed six cents per ounce; and an ounce will do a great deal of colouring.

alkanet is to be bought at the druggists, is very cheap, perfectly innoxious, and is now much used for colouring confectionary.

Take half an ounce of chippings of alkanet root, which may be bought at a druggists, for a few cents.

Put into a wide-mouthed bottle four ounces of the best olive oil, with one ounce of the small parts of alkanet root.

Then remove the bag of alkanet, and perfume the oil with ottar of roses.