lignum

How to use lignum in a sentence

• They were of elm, with lignum vit roller sheaves, and were bound inside with iron, and had swivel eyes.

  Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British Government

• It is found by experience to bee farre better and of more vses then the wood which is called Guaiacum, or lignum vit.

  A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land Of Virginia, 1590 | Thomas Hariot

• The wood of those trees is as heavy or heavier than Brazil or lignum vitae; and is in colour white.

  Sir Francis Drake Revived | Philip Nichols

• Sam had picked on a great lignum vitæ as the forked tree named in the chart and had come to disappointment, even as I had.

  The Pirate of Panama | William MacLeod Raine

• The fixed valve face is of lignum vitae in a metal recess, and the revolving valve of gun-metal.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1 | Various