What is the definition of Alizarin?

ALIZARIN

\ˈalɪzəɹˌɪn], \ˈalɪzəɹˌɪn], \ˈa_l_ɪ_z_ə_ɹ_ˌɪ_n]\

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1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Dihydroxyantharguinon. A red dye-stuff extracted from madder (rubia tinctorum). Now prepared from the products of coal-tar. Used extensively in dyeing cotton. [Arab.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.