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Webster 1828 Edition


Mahogany

MAHOG'ANY

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Noun.
A tree of the genus Swietenia, growing in the tropical climates of America. The wood is of a reddish or brown color, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. Of this are made our most beautiful and durable pieces of cabinet furniture.

Definition 2024


mahogany

mahogany

English

Noun

mahogany (countable and uncountable, plural mahoganies)

  1. (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
      A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, [].
  3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
    mahogany colour:    
  4. A table made from mahogany wood.
    • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
      Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?

Translations

Adjective

mahogany (comparative more mahogany, superlative most mahogany)

  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.

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