Mahogany

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.

   “A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…].”

2. isim Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
3. isim (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
4. isim A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.

   “William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it).”

5. isim A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.

   “Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.”

6. isim A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.

   “Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?”

7. sıfat Made of mahogany.
8. sıfat Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
9. özel isim A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.