varec

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French varech; of Teutonic origin. See wrack and compare vraic.

Noun

varec (uncountable)

1. The calcined ash of coarse seaweed, used for the manufacture of soda and iodine.
   • 2015, James L. Marshall, Virginia R. Marshall, 9: History of Iodine, Tatsuo Kaiho (editor), Iodine Chemistry and Applications, page 203,

     Potash was scarce because of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), and Bernard Courtois had resorted to varec imported from the Brittany and Normandy seacoasts [5].

2. The seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “varec”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Caver, carve, caver, crave

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French

Noun

varec m (plural varecs)

1. Alternative spelling of varech