Crossword-Solution: AZINE 5 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The azine greens, also, appear tolerably fast on cotton and on silk, but although possessing some body of color, after exposure, the original dark green has changed to a decided drab.

The Daffy Club presents to the eye of a calm observer a fund of entertainment; to the merry mad-wag who is fond of _life_, blowing his _steamer_, and drinking _blue ruin_, until all is blue before him, a ~336~~source of infinite amusement; the convivial finds his antidote to the rubs and jeers of this world in a rum chaunt; while the out and outer may here open his mag-azine of tooth-powder, cause a grand explosion, and never fear to meet a broadside in return.

The parent-substance from which these compounds are derived is known at the present time as "azine" (French, azote = nitrogen), and the dyes belong accordingly to the azine group.

The azine dyes are basic, and mostly of a red or pink shade; they are somewhat fugitive when exposed to light, but possess a certain value on account of their affinity for cotton, and the readiness with which they can be used in admixture with other colouring-matters.

Certain of these diamido-compounds when oxidized in the presence of a further quantity of aniline, toluidine, and such amido-compounds, give rise to unstable blue products, which readily become transformed into red dyes of the azine group.