FUSTIAN

(Fr. fustaine.) A thick twilled cotton, of which velveteen, corduroy, and thickset are varieties. (See Velvet.) Fustian is generally dyed of a deep olive or lead colour. Fustian, in Criticism, is applied to writings remarkable foi a forced elevation of style, or for an exaggerated or unnaturai use of metaphors or other rhetorical figures. FUSTIC A yellow dye stuff. There are two kinds of fustic occasionally used by dyers. Old fustic is the wood of a large tree, the Morus tinct or i a, which grows abundanUv in many parts of the West Indies and America; it gives a dingy yellow dye, and is chiefly useful in the production of compound colours. Young fustic is the Rhus cotinus, or Venice sumach, a shrub growing in Italy and the south of France; it gives a greenish-yellow dye, and is also used as an acce ory material. [s. 498]