archil

English

Etymology

Corrupted from orchil.

Noun

archil (countable and uncountable, plural archils)

1. (obsolete) Orchil, a violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, etc.
2. (obsolete) The plant from which the dye is obtained.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “archil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• Litmus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “archil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “archil”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• CHIRLA, Charli, chiral