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VEGETABLIZE. 74 VEGETATE.
prepared to imitate \-elIuin. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Set. *
Art 11.495 In China and in Nortn America, wax isobtained
directly from plants, and is then called •vegetable- wax.
tS43 Ptnnf Cyc/.XXVI. 180 i Myrica qutiyi/olia^a. native
oftne Cape of Good Hope, is another species which yields
a vegetable wax. 1853 T. C Archer Pofi. Econ. Bot. 281
Vegetable Wax (South American). Ibid. 282 Vegetable
Wax, or Myrtle Wax (of North America). 1884 Chambers's
yml. 8 March 146/2 The prepared fibre of this plant [Neilgherry
nettle] is sometimes called ^Vegetable wool.
b. In the names of pigments, as vegetable black,
^/w^, etc. _,. _ ,.
1807 T. Thomsom CArw.Ced. 3) H- ^74 This acid reddens
vegetable blues, and gradually destroys the greater number
of them. 1875 Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bf x. (ed. 2) 365
Vtgetable Black.~T\C\s, is the cheapest and best black for
alt ordinarv work.
Ve-getablize, z'. rare. [f. Vegetable j^. or «.
+ -IZK.] trans, and refl. To render vegetable ; to
convert into, or cause to resemble, a vegetable
substance.
A 1843 Encycl. Meirop. VII. 113 Having been vegetablized
..in the leaves, it (the sap] passes into vessels, .in the bark.
z86q in Cosmopolitan 19 Aug. 314 The mineral vegetabliscs
itself, the vegetable animalises itself, a 1891 O'Neill
hyeing Calico Print. 36 (Cent. Dtct), Silk is to be vege