brazile

Noun

brazil (plural brazils)

1. (obsolete) A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
   • A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum
2. The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
   • The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.1594, Thomas Blundeville, Exercises
3. A Brazil nut.
   • I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.
4. A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

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