Lignum vitae, Guaiacum

Bock. m. buck (Brewing) bock beer (Twk.) trestle, jack, horse, stand, stool blunder, -asche, /. coal ashes. -hoLz, n. guaiacum wood, lignum vitae,... [Pg.77]

Franz-band, m. calf binding calf-bound book, -branntwein, m. brandy, cognac, -gold, ru French leaf gold (pale, due to silver alloy), Franzose, m. Frenchman monkey wrench, Franzosen-hsrz, n. guaiacum. -holz, n. guai-acum, lignum vitae. [Pg.163]

Pockholz, n. lignum [vitae, guaiacum wood, pockwood. [Pg.343]

Guaiacum officinale (Guaiacum, guaiac, guajacum, Lignum vitae)... [Pg.134]

Wood contains air and water as well as wood substances. Wood, when oven-dry, contains only air and woody tissue. The oven-dry density of any species is a direct reflection of the amount of space occupied by wood tissue. Wood densities can vary from 50 kg m with balsa (Ochroma lagopus) to 1400 kg m with lignum vitae (Guaiacum officinale), although most commercial species have densities between 350 and 800 kg m. The proportion of air space to total wood volume can be estimated from the oven-dry density of the timber. Consider a timber having an oven-dry density of 500 kg m . A cubic metre of such a timber would contain 500 kg of woody material whose density is roughly 1500 kg m . This means that the wood substances occupy some 0.33 m leaving 0.67 m " as air space, i.e. two-thirds of the volume is air space. This calculation emphasizes the porosity of most dry wood. [Pg.77]

Guaiaci lignum. Guaiacwm wood. Called Lignum vitae. Guaiacum officinale. W. II. 508. Lignum. The wood. [Pg.37]

Guaiacum chips Chips from the guslacum officinale. See lignum vitae. Cueno The excrement of sea fowl or bats. Rich in r osohates. [Pg.11]

Lignum Vitae. The wood of Guaiacum officinale L., or G. sanctum L., Zygophy I la croc. See also Guaisc. [Pg.864]

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