FUSTIC

  

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FUSTIC

Definition: FUSTIC

FUSTIC

Noun

1. The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FUSTIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)

Etymology: Fustic \Fus"tic\, noun. [French expression fustoc, Spanish fustoc. Compare to Fustet.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: FUSTIC

English words defined with "FUSTIC": Moric, Morin, MorintannicZantewood. (references)
Etymologies containing "FUSTIC": FisetinMorintannic. (references)

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Expressions: FUSTIC

Expressions using "FUSTIC": old fustic zante fustic. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FUSTIC

Language Translations for "FUSTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

farvemorbaertrae gultrae (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

fustiekhout (common smoketree, Cuba wood, fustet, old fustic, smoke tree, yellow wood), fustiek (common smoketree, Cuba wood, fustet, old fustic, smoke tree, yellow wood), geelhout (common smoketree, Cuba wood, fustet, old fustic, smoke tree, yellow wood), cubahout (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), citroenhout (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

fustikki (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), keltapuu (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

French

  

fustic (old fustic), tatajuba (old fustic), mutier des teinturiers (old fustic), bois jaune (fustet, old fustic). (various references)

   

German

  

Fustik (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Fisetholz (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Faerbermaulbeerbaum (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Tatajuba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Gelbholz (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), echtes Gelbholz (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), Alter Fustik (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Fustetto vecchio (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), legno giallo (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), legno di Cuba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usticfay

   

Portuguese

  

fustete, tatajuba, tatajiba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), tataíba (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), tataí (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

palo de mora (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood), palo amarillo (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fustikträd (Cuba wood, old fustic, yellow wood). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ต้นไม้เขตร้อนชนิà¸"หนึ่ง. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: FUSTIC

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Chlorophora tinctoria. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FUSTIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "FUSTIC": fustics. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FUSTIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: austic, fastish, Fesik, Fojtik, Forstich, Fosdick, fotic, Fusata, fuste, fustick, fustik, fustis, Hustwick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FUSTIC"

Words rhyming with "FUSTIC" (pronounced 'Fus"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FUSTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-s-t-u"

-1 letter: cuifs, cutis, ficus, ictus.

-2 letters: cist, cuif, cuts, fisc, fist, fits, fuci, scut, sift, suit, tics, tuis.

-3 letters: cis, cut, fit, ifs, its, sic, sit, tic, tis, tui, uts.

-4 letters: if, is, it, si, ti, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-i-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: fustics.

 

+2 letters: factious, stickful, sulfitic.

 

+3 letters: chuffiest, facetious, faculties, faunistic, fractious, fruticose, functions, scurfiest, stickfuls.

 

+4 letters: bifurcates, confitures, cuttlefish, fabulistic, factiously, factitious, factualism, factualist, felicitous, fictitious, fisticuffs, flounciest, fructifies, fruitcakes, fugacities, furcations, futuristic, infectious, jackfruits, scruffiest, sufficient, tubificids.

 

+5 letters: cafetoriums, centrifuges, cofunctions, disfunction, dysfunction, facetiously, factualisms, factualists, fasciculate, fecundities, feudalistic, fractiously, fungistatic, futuristics, lactiferous, misfunction, obfuscating, obfuscation, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, suffocating, suffocation, suffocative, superinfect, trifurcates, ultrafiches.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FUSTIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 55 53 54 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..-    ...    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0053 0054 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405553544337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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