fustic (fustik)

[With accom.term.- ic; for rustic, fustic, fustet: see fustet.] A dyestuff, the product of Chlorophora ( Maclura ) tinct or i a, a product large urticaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical South America. It is of a light-yellow col or, and is largely used for dyeing shades of yellow, brown, olive, and green. It is known technically as yellow - wood, old fustic, or Cuba wood. It appears in commerce in four states: as chips, as a powder, as an aqueous extract, and as a paste or lake. It is mordanted with alumina for yellow, and with salts of iron for green. - Young fustic, the wood of Rhus Cotinus, the Venetian sumac or smoke tree of southern Europe, used for dyeing yellow. It comes in commerce as small logs and crooked branches. It is also known as Zante fustic and fustet. It dyes wool mordanted with alumina a fine orange color, but is easily affected by light. It is used by the tamers of Turkey, and in Tyrol, to impart an orange color to leather. fustigate (fus'ti-gat), v. t.; pret. and pp. fust i gated, ppr. fustigating. [ Pg. Sp. Pr. fustigar = F. fustiger ), cudgel to death, Falling out with his steward Rivaldus de Modena, an Italian, and fustigating him for his faults, the angry Italian poysoned him [Cardinal Bam bridge). Fuller, Worthies, West more land. I pa ed that night crying, "Hai, Hai!" switching the camel, and fruitle ly endeavoring to fustigate Masud's nephew, who resolutely slept on the water-bags. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 362. fustigation (fus-ti-ga's hon), n. [F. fustiga tion =Pg. fustigação ; as fustigate + -ion.] The act of fustigating or cudgeling; punishment inflicted by cudgeling. That is to say, six fustigations or dis plings about the parish church of Aldborough aforesaid, before a solemne proce ion, sixe seueral Sundaies, etc. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 609. I have not observed that Colonel De Craye is anything of a Celtiberian Egnatius meriting fustigation for an untimely display of well-whitened teeth. G. Meredith, The Egoist, xxix.