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動詞

sighten (三人称単数 現在形 sightens, 現在分詞 sightening, 過去形および過去分詞形 sightened)

1. (transitive, calico-printing) To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not.
   • 1830, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Chemistry of the Arts:

     The iron liquor should be sightened with logwood.

   • 1849, Edward Andrew Parnell, Dyeing and Calico-printing, page 132:

     Annexed is a specimen of calico in this stage of the process, the mordant on which is red liquor, “sightened” with a little decoction of peach-wood or similar dye-stuff.

派生語

• sightening

アナグラム

• Thesing, nighest, signeth, singeth, thinges