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Shumac
noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 Dated spelling of sumac.
"In dying a Cotton Gown Black. [...] For a gown, take half a pint of ground shumac and put it into a sieve, and place it in a pan; then pour boiling water on it, and let the shumac water run into the pan; then put in your gown, and let it steep for six hours; [...]"
- 2 a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) wordnet
Verb
- 1 Alternative spelling of sumac. alt-of, alternative, dated
"Then lot 1 will be shumacked first time; that is, passed through a decoction of shumac, then through copperas, and then washed off, and if the decoction of shumac is kept up strong, after being all of them once shumacked they may be dried. [...] If the black liquor and the shumacking were powerful, some of them will shew themselves finished when dry."
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