different between dye vs puccoon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: die, Di, Dai

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English d?ah, d?ag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *daug? (“colour, shade”), from *daugan?, *dug- (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).

The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English d?agian, from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) die

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue, color, or blee.

Synonyms

• colourant
• tincture

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ink

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Synonyms

• (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

1. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)
   • 1748. David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46:

     If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;

Translations

Anagrams

• Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

1. plural of dy

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (“god”).

Noun

dye

1. god

English

Alternative forms

• paucon, pauson
• pocones [17th c.]

Etymology

From Powhatan poughkone. Puccoon thus forms a doublet with poke (“pokeweed”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??ku?n/

Noun

puccoon (countable and uncountable, plural puccoons)

1. (countable, botany) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens.
2. (uncountable) The red pigment (dye) obtained from these plants.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, quoted by Kupperman in 1988, page 61:

     their head and shoulders [were] painted red, with Oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet-like colour made an exceeding handsome shew [...].

Derived terms

• Canada puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)
• Carolina puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• fringed puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• golden puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• hairy puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)
• narrow-leaved puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• narrowleaf puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• red puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)

References

• puccoon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.