Turmeric roots are pounded in a mortar and then added to the boiling water, after which the tikug is added.
These are then separately treated with water and pressed, the result being a turmeric water and an annatto water.
A quantity of turmericroots and annatto seeds are pounded separately in mortars until they are reduced to a very fine state.
Yellow: Yellow straw is produced in the same manner, using turmeric and annatto only.
When an animal has been killed and brought home, the hunter cuts off the head, and after washing it with turmeric powder and water makes an offering of it to the forest god.
In Chhindwara they do not wash or anoint the corpses of the dead, but sprinkle on them a little turmeric and water.
They wash the goat's feet in water and rub turmeric on its feet and head.
These are represented by young boys and married women of other families who come to the house and are bathed and anointed with turmeric and oil, and given presents of sugar and new clothes.
They worship their implements of agriculture on the last day of Chait (April), applying turmeric and vermilion to them.
On the third day they bathe and are shaved, and catch a fish, which is divided among all the relatives, however small it may be, and eaten raw with salt, turmeric and garlic.
But Hindu customs are gradually being adopted, and the rubbing of powdered turmeric and water on the bodies of the bride and bridegroom is generally essential to a proper wedding.
Offerings of cocoanuts, rice, turmeric and flowers are made to her, but no animal sacrifices.
A girl who is seduced by a member of the caste is married to him by a simple ceremony, the couple standing before a twig of the umar [27] tree, while some women sprinkle turmeric over them.
Turmeric and oil are rubbed on his body and on the spear, and he walks round it seven times.
A great struggle now arose to obtain the smallest relic from his person; a particle of the turmeric paste with which he was smeared, or a drop of his spittle, was esteemed of sovereign virtue, especially by the women.
Some of the murdered Koltas were anointed with turmeric and offered at temples, the Khonds calling them their goats, and in one case a Kolta is believed to have been made a Meriah sacrifice to the earth god.
It is generally considered that if a girl goes of her own accord and pours turmeric and water over a man, it is a valid marriage and he can take her to live in his house.
At the temple they worship the god, and deposit before him the strings coloured with turmeric which had been tied on their wrists.
All the women whose husbands are alive then have turmeric rubbed on their foreheads, and a caste feast follows.
A mock struggle takes place, during which turmeric water is thrown by both sides, and an entrance into the house is finally effected.
In the evening the pair go to the bride's house, and rub oil over each other's head before bathing inturmeric water.
The barber outlines the figure of a man or woman, according to the sex of the deceased, with rice flour and turmeric powder, the head to the south, in the middle room of the house.
Entering the pandal once more, they sit therein, and the elders bless them by throwing rice coloured with turmeric over their heads.
Those Holodias who are illiterate make the mark (nisani) of a ball of turmericpaste as a substitute for their autograph on documents.
Five small stones, smeared with turmeric and lime, are set up at the head of the grave, and worshipped.
On a smaller leaf, chunam (lime) and turmeric are placed.
A little turmeric powder is taken from the outline, and rubbed on the forehead of the eldest son.
Near them he sets a cocoanut, which has been blackened with charcoal, on some rice spread on a plantain leaf, a cocoanut reddened with turmeric and chunam on raw rice, and another on a leaf, containing fried paddy.
They may not carry turmeric and other articles for sale on the back of bullocks, and consequently use carts as a medium of transport thereof.
A leafy arbour is constructed, and in front of it is placed a terrible figure of Chamundi, the queen of the demons, made of rice flour, turmeric powder, and charcoal powder.
A small quantity of turmeric paste is stuck on the doors of the houses of all who are invited.
Instead of the usual turmeric threads, the wrists of the contracting couple are tied together with wool.
Their bodies are anointed with castor-oil mixed with turmeric powder, and they bathe.
When a girl reaches puberty, she has to sit in a room on five fresh palmyra palm leaves, bathes in turmeric water, and may not eat salt.
Three pieces of firewood, arranged in the form of a triangle, are lighted, and a small pot is placed on them, wherein some rice is cooked in turmeric water.
To each of the two larger pots a piece of turmeric and betel leaf are tied, and nine kinds of grain are placed in them.
Tom-toms (native drums) and elephants usually form part of the procession, and turmericwater is sprinkled.
Their hands are joined together by the presiding Desari, they bathe in turmeric water, and new cloths are given to them.
She stands by the side of the bridegroom, and the Desari links together their little fingers, while the women throw rice coloured with turmeric over them.
Three vessels containing, respectively, raw rice, turmeric water and milk, each with pieces of betel leaf, are brought.
Mr. Fawcett states that, on festive occasions, turmeric is used by the Brahmans of Malabar.
A particular spot inside the temple is set apart for the distribution of what is called manjal prasadam (turmeric powder on which divine blessings have been invoked).
The hair of the head and face is shaved a little, and the body is bathed with water in which turmeric and mailanchi, a red vegetable substance, are dissolved.
While undergoing the ceremony, the bridegroom wears a thread smeared with turmeric tied round the right wrist.
Many of these Paliyans suffer from jungle fever, as a protection against which they wear a piece of turmeric tied round the neck.
When boiling have ready a half pound of ground mustard, 3/4 cup of flour, 1 tablespoon of turmeric powder, all mixed to a smooth paste with a little water.
If boric acid either free or combined is present, the turmeric paper will be turned to a cherry-red color.
Dry again and a cherry-red color forms if turmeric is present.
If turmeric is present, a cherry-red color will appear when the filter paper is dry.
Soak a piece of turmeric paper in the extract, and if boric acid is present the paper will be colored rose-red when it is dry.
Place a strip of turmeric paper in this solution for a few minutes, then remove and dry it.
Then test with the turmeric paper with the same results as in the above method.
Add a drop of dilute alkali and if turmeric be present the paper will be colored dark olive.
Closing his eyes, the Irula beats the drum, and shakes his head about, while his wife, who stands near him, sprinkles turmeric water over him.
The deity is represented by a pie piece (copper coin), placed in or over a new earthen pot smeared with rice and turmeric powder.
The deity is represented by five pots arranged in the form of a square, with a single pot in the centre, filled with turmeric water.
The females present throw turmeric powder over them, and they are bathed with turmeric-water kept ready in a new pot.
Half a seer or a measure of rice is boiled, reduced to a pulpy mass, and mixed with turmeric powder.
They then adorn their foreheads with kunkumam (aniline powder) and turmeric paste, and burn incense and camphor before them.
Cow's urine and turmeric water are sprinkled over those assembled, and women are kept at a distance to prevent menstrual or other form of pollution.
On the first day, the girl is seated, and, after she has been smeared with oil and turmeric paste, seven women throw Zizyphus leaves and rice over her.
The Nampiyan consecrates a pot of water with prayers, the Occhan plays on his musical instrument, and the Vellalas and Kudikkari powder the turmeric to be smeared over the corpse.
On the seventh day, the ends of the cloths of the newly married couple are tied together, and they bathe in turmeric water.
Besides the turmeric already mentioned, we saw but one colouring stuff, dyeing red, which seemed to be obtained from Bixa Orellana, and is used by the natives to paint their canoes with.
Smeared with turmeric water, they all bathe and return home, throwing away the mat and other things that were in the room.
In particular, they were considered necessary in the cultivation of turmeric, the Khonds arguing that the turmeric could not have a deep red colour without the shedding of blood.
An alkali is distinguished from an acid or neutral substance by its action on litmus, turmeric and other indicators.
The pole c, when touched by turmeric paper, gave no traces of alkali, nor could anything but pure water be found upon it.
A piece of turmeric paper moistened in solution of sulphate of soda was reddened at n by two or three turns of the machine, and in twenty or thirty turns plenty of alkali was there evolved.
The machine was then worked, the positive electricity passing into the turmeric paper at the point p, and out at the extremity n.
I soon obtained evidence of decomposition in each of the moist conductors, for all the litmus points exhibited free acid, and the turmeric points equally showed free alkali.
Turmeric is the root portion of a plant called curcuma tinctoria, that grows in Southern Asia.
In our experiments we saw that turmeric is one of the few substantive colours fixing itself on both cotton and wool, without any aid from a mordant or fixing agent.
Evidently the way in which, the turmeric dyes the cotton is different from that in which the madder dyes it.
Turmeric dyes the first yellow, like it did the cotton.
To show you how easily dyeing with turmeric is effected, I will warm some powdered turmeric root in a flask with alcohol, and add the extract to a vessel of water warmed to about 140° F.
Verdigris with aloes, or gall or turmeric makes a fine green and so it does with saffron or burnt orpiment; but I doubt whether in a short time they will not turn black.
The coriander and turmeric may have to be purchased at a drug store.
Roast two tablespoonfuls of turmeric until the raw taste is taken away, then mix with it two tablespoonfuls of ground mustard; add to this a cup of salad and a cup of vinegar.
He was pale, partly from the turmeric baths, which are supposed to produce a complexion favourable to feminine eyes, partly because he really felt sick after the unusual sloth and sweets of the last few days.
A solution of gamboge in water, writes a full yellow, but comes far short of turmeric in brightness.
In the same manner, alkalies may be detected by a strip of turmeric yellow paper, which will be also changed to red by alkalies.
Put seeds and turmeric in vinegar and boil, pour over the ingredients while hot.
Turmeric water is used for charming and sticks from bitter plants are used as magic wands.
In the marriage season he is worshipped in the family cook-room, and at weddings oil and turmericare offered to him.
On the cloth thirty-six pinches of rice are dropped in a heap, and with them turmeric and red powder, all scarers of demons, are mixed.
The girl bathes, and daubs herself with turmeric paste.
They are bathed together in turmeric water, and the cloth is then untied for the last time.
The milk-post is supported on a grindstone painted with turmeric stripes, washed with milk and cow's urine, and worshipped, with the Valluvan as the celebrant priest.
Turmeric and oil are rubbed over her daily, and, on the seventh day, she visits the local shrine.
Some Panos have adopted the worship of Takuranis (village deities), to whom rice and turmeric are offered by placing them before the image in the form of a figure-of-eight.
On the following day, the bride is conducted to the house of the bridegroom, and they sprinkle each other with turmeric water.
The females belonging to the bridegroom's party sprinkle them with turmeric and rice.
Adoption is accordingly known as manjanir kudikkiradu, or the drinking of turmeric water, and the adopted son as the manjanir pillai, or turmeric water boy.
Round the necks of these pots, bits of turmeric are tied.
At the pradanam ceremony, no bonthu (turmeric thread) is tied round the bride's neck.
The adoptee's feet are washed in turmeric water by the adopter, who then drinks a little of the liquid.
After an interval of some days, a third visit is paid, and three pots of liquor smeared with turmeric paste, and a quantity of turmeric, are taken to the house.
When a woman, who has been guilty of adultery, is remarried, a turmeric string is substituted for the golden tali, and is tied on the bride's neck by a woman.
The moment the lighted turmeric was taken near her, she screamed aloud and ran away from the room.
For this purpose he lighted a piece of turmericand set it below the nose of the supposed woman.
Hassall at the best as well as inferior shops, all were more or less adulterated with wheaten flour for bulk, and with turmeric for colour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turmeric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
