sapan

Various leguminous trees, including lima, sapan and peach wood, dye red with alum and tartar, and a purplish slate colour with bichromate of potash.

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

The official returns, since 1898, do not state the _quantities_ of sapan-wood shipments.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

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 George Field

They are, however, not fond of work nor is it necessary for them to be so, for they have few wants for housing and food, fire and clothing, and mother earth has endowed them with a perpetual summer and a fertile soil, yielding rich harvests of rice and pepper, whilst the mountains abound in teak and yellow wood, box and ebony, sapan and padoo.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Dutchmen, a bargain was struck and the Franklin sailed for Nagasaki with cloves, chintz, sugar, tin, black pepper, sapan wood, and elephants 'teeth.

The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

Cedar, ebony, and sapan-wood are available for ornamental purposes; there is also a great variety of economic woods.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

_Iloilo_ is the second port of importance of the islands, and is the centre of a considerable export trade in tobacco, hemp, sugar, and sapan-wood.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

However ridiculous this may seem, it is not more so than a prescription given by the court physician in Siam to a lady of high rank at the time of her confinement: ` ` Rub together shavings of sapan wood, rhinoceros blood, tiger's milk (a fresh deposit found on certain leaves in the forest), and cast-off skins of spiders. ''

Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884

[62] Probably the _sibucao (Cæsalpina sapan_); its wood produces a red coloring-matter which is highly valued, especially by the Chinese.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

In early life he lost most of his teeth, but he had had them replaced with a set made from sapan-wood, -- a secret that he kept very sensitively to the day of his death.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874