lignum vitae

The seat is made from the dense hardwood called Lignum vitae.

The historical material for this was the tropical hardwood timber, lignum vitae.

The pit wheel is cast iron with 96 lignum vitae cogs.

Design: Butterfly within leafy sprigs of the lignum vitae, the national flower.

But, in the background, there was one very beautiful lignum vitae tree in full blue blossom.

Cut a slice across a trunk of Lignum Vitae.

Various other hardwoods may also be called lignum vitae and should not be confused with it.

Lignum vitae is a self lubricating wood and in clocks it gives extremely long life.

The wood, a waxy greenish-brown, was lignum vitae, very hard and too heavy to float in water.

The lignum vitae bolt was five-eighths of an inch thick and steel-tipped.

Some of the best are made from the lignum vitae, the Bahamian national tree, and from the wild tamarind.

Even in the darkness I could see the gleaming luster of the oiled lignum vitae, the hardest wood known to man.

Most wood-carvers use a mallet - made of an especially dense wood, lignum vitae - to drive the chisel.

A face hewn from lignum vitae, from marble.

The clock still operates and like his previous clocks has a wooden movement, made of oak and lignum vitae.

The big lignum vitae sheave fitted into a thick wooden shell, one side of which was longer than the other, and open at one end.

They are close relatives of the "true" lignum vitae trees of genus Guaiacum.

The first bowling balls used in the United States were made of wood, especially oak, and lignum vitae wood.

Balls are between 4 to 5 inches in diameter and again are either made of wood (lignum vitae) or a composite rubber.

Some believe that lignum vitae can cure impotence; others identify it as the rootstock of the Holy Cross.

The cozy main farmhouse, built by 1740 out of lignum vitae, or ironwood, is believed to be the oldest surviving wooden house in the Caribbean.

He then experimented with bearings of lignum vitae, a tropical hardwood that exudes its own grease, eliminating the need for oil.

It this case the Lignum vitae is from the Guaiacum officinale tree.

And he often takes visitors to the two-century-old lignum vitae, the oldest tree on the island, near the ruins of a 17th-century sugar mill.

And in another moment the sighing thud of his lignum vitae bolt where it crashed through the host body and was wedged there.