ˈeagle-wood
Also 8 agal-wood.
[transl. F. bois d'aigle, Pg. pao d'aguila, a perversion of Malayālam aγil, or some other vernacular form of Skr. aguru (Yule). Cf. agalloch.]
Another name for agalloch or calambac, q.v.
| [1516 Barbosa (Lisbon) 393 (Y.) Aguila, cada Farazola de 300 a 400 (fanams).] 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 59 The Portuguese call it Eagle-wood. 1774 Niebuhr Des. de l'Arabie xxxiv. (Y.) Un bois nommé par les Anglois Agal⁓wood, et par les Indiens de Bombay Agar. 1854 Hooker Himal. Jrnls. (1855) II. 318 (Y.) The eagle-wood..is much sought for its fragrant wood. 1864 Sat. Rev. 9 July 67 Trees containing the eagle-wood, resins, and dye-woods. 1871 Alabaster Wheel of Law 86 A second [palace] of nine stories, constructed entirely of eagle-wood. |