Maize

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 27

I. Indian corn. See Zea mays. 2. A coal-tar color, used in dyeing silk and wool reddish-yellow in an acid bath. It is the sodium salt of the disulphonic acid of azoxystilbene, and is called Sun-yellow. M. -poisoning. See Pellagra .