Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tombac . - noun Agallochum or aloes-wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Metal.), obsolete See
tombac .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
tombak .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding
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Again, and for a third time, he came out and went through the same ceremony; after which he brought a little basket of rushes, filled with an herb which is called there tambac, which he threw into the boat.
Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Gordon Browne 1867
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