Usage examples (25)

• The first group embraces logwood, orchil, alkanet, and aniline violets, including under the latter term
• Cochineal is turned by the potassa to a violet-red, orchil to a violet-blue, and alkanet to a decided blue.
• Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye.
• = — Lard, twenty-six ounces; white wax, two ounces; nitre and alum in fine powder, of each one-half ounce; alkanet to color.