The first group embraces logwood, orchil, alkanet, and aniline violets, including under the latter term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference

Cochineal is turned by the potassa to a violet-red, orchil to a violet-blue, and alkanet to a decided blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference

Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oeconomicus] Reference

= — Lard, twenty-six ounces; white wax, two ounces; nitre and alum in fine powder, of each one-half ounce; alkanet to color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Castor oil, alcohol, each 1 pint; tinct. cantharides, 1 ounce; oil bergamot, 1/2 ounce; alkanet coloring, to color as wished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Logwood violet is browned; that of orchil, if slightly reddish, is turned to a blue-violet; that of alkanet is modified to a fine blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference

The variety under notice, violet carmine, resembles the other colours afforded by alkanet in not being able to withstand the action of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Another powder for the same ulcers: - The black chamaeleon, when prepared with the juice of the fig. It is to be prepared roasted, and alkanet mixed with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Ulcers] Reference

On account, probably, of its extreme costliness, it was frequently the custom to dye the cloth with a ground of kermes or alkanet, previous to applying the Tyrian purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm spermaceti, and throw in a piece of alkanet root to color it, and when cooling, perfume it with oil rose, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference

She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

= — One of the most powerful stimulants for the growth of the hair is the following: Take a quarter of an ounce of the chippings of alkanet root, tie in a scrap of coarse muslin, and suspend it in a jar containing eight ounces of sweet oil for a week, covering it from the dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference

Deez thrilling pc3200 400mhz memory coerebidae mongolic puffed alkanet for estrous bowleg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference

Put into a wide-mouthed bottle four ounces of the best olive oil, with one ounce of the small parts of alkanet root.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

One of these includes the forget-me-nots, the borage, the alkanet, and the viper's bugloss, which keep up this blue as a family heirloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

The ancients deemed the rose one of the four "cordial flowers" for cheering spirits, the others being violet, alkanet, and blue-flowering borage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

A solution of spermaceti in sulphuric ether tinged with alkanet root, which solidifies at 50o F., and melts and boils with the heat of the hand, is described in Beckmann's History of Inventions, Vol. II., page 121.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Mongers and Their Methods] Reference

A solution of spermaceti in sulphuric ether tinged with alkanet root, which solidifies at 50 degrees F., and melts and boils with the heat of the hand, is described in Beckmann's History of Inventions, Vol. II., page 121.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

Then strain off the oil very clear from the alkanet root, put it into an earthen pipkin, and add to it an ounce of white wax, and an ounce and a half of the best mutton suet, which has been previously clarified, or boiled and skimmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference

Place the wax, sperm, and oil on to the alkanet root in a vessel heated by steam or water-bath; after the materials are melted, they must digest on the alkanet to extract its color for at least four or five hours; finally, strain through fine muslin, then add the perfume just before it cools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference

No change of color indicates alkanet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference

Color red with two-penny worth of alkanet root.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

The first group comprises madder, cochineal, orchil, alkanet, and murexide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference