Word Meanings - DYESTUFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A material used for dyeing.

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• DYER
  One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
• DYEHOUSE
  A building in which dyeing is carried on.
• DYE
  To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool , to dye firmly; to imbue
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• DYEING
  The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• DYEWOOD
  Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.
• DYESTUFF
  A material used for dyeing.
• MATERIALISM
  1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to
• MATERIALIZATION
  The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
• MATERIALIST
  1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the
• MATERIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. 2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
• MATERIALLY
  1. In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle. 2. In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself
• MATERIALIZE
  To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits. A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent. (more info) 1. To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible
• MATERIAL
  Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. Material cause. See under Cause. -- Material evidence , evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton. Syn. -- Corporeal; bodily;
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• IMMATERIALLY
  1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree.
• COMMATERIAL
  Consisting of the same material. Bacon.
• SUPERMATERIAL
  Being above, or superior to, matter.
• UNMATERIAL
  Not material; immaterial. Daniel.
• BEDYE
  To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.
• WOOL-DYED
  Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece- dyed; ingrain.
• OVERDYE
  To dye with excess of color; to put one color over . Shak.