sumack

Obsolete spelling of sumac.

Noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of sumac.
    • A declaration of the places whence the goods ſubſcribed doe come. [...] Sumack, from Cyprus. - 1584, William Barret[t], “The Money and Measures of Babylon, Balsara, and the Indies, with the Customes, &c. Written from...
    • The whole plant [windmannia] ſeems to have ſomething of the appearance of a Sumack. - 1756, Patrick Browne, “Sect. II. Of Such as have Eight Filaments and Two Styles in Every Flower.”, in The Civil and Natural History...
    • [B]y tanned hides or ſkins, or by tanned pieces of hides or ſkins, are meant only ſuch as are tanned in wooſe made of the bark of trees, or ſumack, or whereof the principal ingredients ſhall be ſuch bark, or ſumack;...

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