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.]

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  Another name for AGALLOCH or CALAMBAC, q.v.

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[1516.  Barbosa (Lisbon), 393 (Y.). Aguila, cada Farazola de 300 a 400 (fanams).]

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1712.  trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 59. The Portuguese call it Eagle-wood.

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1774.  Niebuhr, Des. de l’Arabie, xxxiv. (Y.). Un bois nommé par les Anglois Agalwood, et par les Indiens de Bombay Agar.

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1854.  Hooker, Himal. Jrnls. (1855), II. 318 (Y.). The eagle-wood … is much sought for its fragrant wood.

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1864.  Sat. Rev., 9 July, 67. Trees containing the eagle-wood, resins, and dye-woods.

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1871.  Alabaster, Wheel of Law, 86. A second [palace] of nine stories, constructed entirely of eagle-wood.

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