Definitions for fustics

fustics fus·tic

Spelling: [fuhs-tik]
IPA: /ˈfʌs tɪk/

Fustics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in fustics (cfisstu).

Definitions for fustics

noun

  1. the wood of a large, tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, yielding a light-yellow dye.
  2. the tree itself.
  3. the dye.
  4. any of several other dyewoods.

Origin of fustics

1425-75; late Middle English fustik Middle French fustoc Arabic fustuq Persian pistah; akin to Greek pistákē pistachio tree

Examples for fustics

If a brownish touch is desired, add some more decoction of fustic when the black is nearly done.

The fustic and cocoa tree is found here also in great abundance.

A bright olive may be made from fustic and oak bark, adding a little turmeric and alum water.

Considerable quantities of lime and magnesia in the water will cause duller shades with logwood and fustic dyeings.

fustic is the wood of Morus tinctoria, a tree of Central America.

fustic, the wood of a tree which grows in the West Indies, called Morus tinctoria.

But the best greens are undoubtedly got from weld and fustic.

Give the goods a mixed mordant of acetate of alumina and acetate of iron, followed by a bath of madder or of madder and fustic.

One of the above mordants is followed by a bath made by mixing equal parts of the decoctions of logwood, fustic, and Brazil-wood.

By adding or diminishing the log-wood and fustic any shade may be had.

Word Value for fustics
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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