| 单词 | camwood |
| 例句 | A new headdress decked his hair; and he must have kept his barber busy half the night in arranging his top-knot and painting his face with red camwood and white clay. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z The chief trees are silk cottons, especially the bombax, and gigantic hard-wood trees, such as the African mahogany, ebony, odum and camwood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The following extracts from his writings set this matter beyond all doubt: “Bolobo is a great centre for the ivory and camwood powder trade, principally because its people are so enterprising.” The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z His face was streaked red with camwood, and around his eyes he had painted two white circles. The Keepers of the King's Peace The trade of these regions consists of an exchange of tropical products—palm-oil, rubber, ebony, camwood, ivory, and hides—for cloth, tobacco, fire-arms, beads and trinkets, and preserved foods. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Bizaro, mustering his force, came gaily through the sun-splashed aisles of the forest, his face streaked hideously with camwood, his big elephant spear twirled between his fingers, and behind him straggled his cosmopolitan force. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Red comes next to this which is mostly obtained of camwood, another domestic employment of the women. Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Is a coarse kind of lake, produced by dyeing chalk or whitening with decoction of Brazil wood, peachwood, sapan, bar, camwood, &c. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists Of dyes and dyewoods, she has indigo, camwood, harwood, and the materials for the best blue, brown, red, and yellow colors. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This method is more particularly applicable to such dye-stuffs as camwood, cutch, logwood, madder, fustic, etc., the colouring principles of which have some affinity for the wool fibre and will directly combine with it. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics This they smeared with a paint made by the admixture of camwood and copal gum. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country For a rich mild red colour, rectified spirits of naphtha, dyed with camwood dust, or an oily decoction of alkanet-root. French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction She came riding "pickaback" on a man's shoulders; a nice, modest, good-looking young woman, her hair rubbed all over with nkola, a red pigment, made from the camwood, and much used as an ornament. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 About thirty miles east of Bassia Cove, in the republic of Liberia, is the commencement of a region of unknown extent, where scarcely any tree is seen except the camwood. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Another plan which has been followed is to give the wool a bottom with 5 to 6�lb. of camwood or peachwood, then mordanting and dyeing us usual. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics On the first day following the tax palaver Bosambo went down the river with four canoes, each canoe painted beautifully with camwood and gum, and with twenty-four paddlers. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Abnormal properties are found to be exhibited by camwood and its allies, with aluminum and tin, the colors at first becoming darker, and only afterward fading in the normal manner. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 The chief part of its trade is in slaves, camwood, and ivory, the latter, however, being small, although Port Logo commands a very extensive back country. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The captain receives payment, whether in cash or commodities, and weighs the camwood, or measures the palm-oil, at the merchant's store. Journal of an African Cruiser Still, she must have looked really engaging in a thin pattern of tattoo, a gauze work of oil and camwood, a dwarf pigeon tail of fan palm for an apron, and copper bracelets and anklets. The Life of Sir Richard Burton He was tall and knobby-kneed, spoke with a squeak at the end of his deeper sentences, and about his tired eyes he had made a red circle with camwood. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country |
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