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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

fustoc

, Sp.

fustoc

. Cf.

The wood of the

Maclura tinctoria

, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; – called also

old fustic

[Written also

fustoc

☞ Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of

Xanthoxylum

, and especially the

Rhus Cotinus

, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the

Maclura

. See

Noun.

[L. fustis.] The wood of the Morus tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, imported and used in dyeing yellow.