spicen.
/spʌɪs/, U.S. /spaɪs/ 1.
a. One or other of various strongly flavoured or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, obtained from tropical plants, commonly used as condiments or employment for other purposes on account of their fragrance and preservative qualities.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun]
pigment?a1200
aromac1220
spicea1250
spicery1297
specea1300
specerya1400
espice1483
savoura1500
sorts1530
speciesa1649
Arabia1693
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 168 Þe on was iwuned uor his kolde mawe uorto nutten hote spices [?c1225 Cleo. speces].
a1272 Luue Ron 168 in Old Eng. Misc. Þu ert swetture þan eny spis.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2247 Fruit and spices of dere pris Bereð ðat man ðat is so wis.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 56 And thei turnynge aȝen, maden redy swete spices, and oynementis.
a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 5651 Þer ne groweþ no whete, Ne oþer corne, bot spyces swete, Þerof hij maken her breed.
1450–80 tr. Secreta Secret. 33 Lete him haue savor of encence and othir good spicis among.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 11 Do þer to pynys and saunders,..And oþer goode spyces þou take.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 243 It is not possyble to gyue ony trewe Iugemente when you and we are full of wyne and spyces.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Gijv Pouderinge with spyces the bodye therein inclosed, that no euyll sauoure maye passe foorth.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. iii. 53 Let our Merchants answere, which owe their Spices to Arabia.
1692 T. Tryon Good House-wife (ed. 2) xvii. 143 Such a prodigious encrease of sugars, Spanish Fruits, Wines and Spices.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 77 It may deservedly be counted one of the best spices in common use, having a very fine relish of many, from thence call'd All-Spice.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives V. 55 The spices and rich robes that were burned with him were very expensive.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 646 Baked in pies with spices, they have an excellent flavour.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lix. 267 Nero had so many spices burnt at her funeral that the learned doubted whether Arabia could furnish more in a single summer.
b. figurative. (In Middle English sometimes applied to persons.)
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates
spice?c1225
comfort1377
refresherc1450
refreshment1532
reviver1542
sauce1561
salt1579
refocillation1608
whettera1625
fillip1699
stimulant1728
stimulation1733
yeast1769
stimulus1791
inspiriter1821
stimulatory1821
refreshener1824
boost1825
bracer1826
young blood1830
freshener1838
invigoratorc1842
blow1849
tonic1849
elevation1850
stimulator1851
breather1876
pick-me-up1876
a shot in the arm1922
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 64 Hope is an swete spice in wið þe heorte.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxviii. 21 Heil spice sprong þat neuer was spent.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 938 Þat specyal spyce þen to me spakk.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 235 Ho profered me speche þat special spyce.
c1450 Godstow Reg. 21 That heuenly spyce hit is ful swete.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. B2 This correctiue spice, the mixture whereof maketh knowledge so soueraigne, is Charitie. View more context for this quotation
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila x. iii. 179 No Grandee Patron court I, nor entice Love-glances from enchanting Eyes, Nor Blandishments from lisping Wantons vocall Spice.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 606 Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
1859 Habits Good Society xii. 323 The gentlemen of the bar..make a charming spice to a dinner.
1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 172 He meant something more, which gives the real spice to his writings.
c. An odour or perfume arising from, or resembling that of, spices. (Cf. 2c.)
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant smell
savouringc1390
scent?1473
balm1483
redolencec1530
spice1560
perfumea1593
redolency1610
soot1620
fragor1638
suaveolence1657
fragrance1667
incense1667
nosegay1700
aroma1814
musk1855
petrichor1964
1560 Bible (Geneva) Song of Sol. iv. 16 Blowe on my garden, that the spices thereof may flowe out.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxii. i, in Maud & Other Poems 67 The woodbine spices are wafted abroad.
2.
a. Without article, as a substance or in collective sense. (In Scottish use frequently = pepper.)
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 2103 Asie..es þe best, for þar in es..Precius stans and spice of prise.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) vi. 67 Thei ete it in stede of Spice.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. v. 119 Medecynes made wyth precyous spyces.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxvij To whom the Erle of Sussex..brought a voyde of spice and comfettes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 118 Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your Spice . View more context for this quotation
1694 J. Crowne Regulus ii. 12 A man all Vertue, like a Pye all Spice, will not please.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 348 They use a great deal of rich Spice.
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xv. 162 The dead,..with precious gums and spice Fragrant, and incorruptibly preserved.
1842 H. W. Longfellow Quadroon Girl iii Odours of orange-flowers and spice Reached them.
b. dialect. (See quots.)
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun]
confection1393
sweetmeat?a1500
junkery1509
conceit1525
banqueta1533
junketry1599
sweet1660
spice1674
knick-knack1682
confectionery1769
confiture1802
candy?1809
knick-knackery1813
mithai1824
dulce1834
sweet-stuff1835
bouchées1846
ket1979
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > dried fruit > [noun]
spice1674
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun]
sweetmeat?a1500
candy1587
spice1674
lollipop1784
sweet-stuff1835
goody1853
sucks1858
pogey bait1918
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 44 Spice: Raisins, plums, figs and such like fruit. York-sh. [Hence in Bailey and Grose.]
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 354 Spice, dried fruit, as raisins, currants, [etc.].
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Spice, sweet meats of any kind.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 164 Spice, the common term here for sweetmeats and confectionery of all sorts, but especially for gingerbread articles.
c. Spicy fragrance. (Cf. 1c.)
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1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 143 A summer fann'd with spice.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcix. 152 And many a rose-carnation [shall] feed With summer spice the humming air. View more context for this quotation
d. technical. (See quot. 1858.)
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Spice,..a technical name among sugar-refiners for bullocks'-blood.
e. A medicated preparation added to cattle or horse feed. ? Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > additives
spice1707
blood meal1868
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 157 Take a quart of Ale, half an ounce of Diapente.., Horse-spice two Ounces.
1928 E. P. Oppenheim Chron. Melhampton 143 A retired dealer in cattle spices.
1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage v. i. 253 Thomas Morrison kept a much more interesting shop, in the last years of the seventeenth century... There was ironmongery..‘horse spice and jollop’ for the farmer.
a. A sort, kind, or species. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class
kinc950
kindOE
distinction?c1225
rowc1300
spece1303
spice1303
fashionc1325
espicec1386
differencea1398
statec1450
sort?1523
notion1531
species1561
vein1568
brood1581
rank1585
order1588
race1590
breed1598
strain1612
batch1616
tap1623
siege1630
subdivision1646
notionality1651
category1660
denomination1664
footmark1666
genus1666
world1685
sortment1718
tribe1731
assortment1767
description1776
style1794
grouping1799
classification1803
subcategory1842
type1854
basket1916
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 7585 Ȝyt þyr ys a-noþer spyce Þat cumþ of þe fendes malyce.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋102 The spices of penitence ben thre.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 228 Ech spice of moral yuel is moral yuel, and is a morali yuel spice.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 3 b Of the seuen spyces of ydolatrye.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. b j b There is an other spice of fleure, which is swete and some what warme.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 242 For alterations or chaunges, are spices, or rather consequents of mouing.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > a kind of
a spice ofc1380
number?a1425
sort1526
sort1529
space1591
a species of1620
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 27 For þis is a spise of pride that men clepen ypocrisie.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 180 Allopucia is a maner spice of lepre þat comeþ of rotid fleume.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) 144 Such givinge were no vertu, but a spice of prodigalite.
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. B.i Hit is a spyce of peuyshe pryde..whan a man wyl take a syngler way by hymselfe.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Cachexia, a spyce of a consumption, which procedeth of an yll disposition of the body.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. vi. sig. Iv Bountie is A spice of Vertue. View more context for this quotation
a. Appearance, semblance. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun]
onseneeOE
bleea1000
shapeOE
ylikeOE
laitc1175
semblanta1225
sightc1275
fare1297
showingc1300
specea1325
parelc1330
guise1340
countenance1362
semblance?a1366
apparel1377
regardc1380
apparencec1384
imagec1384
spicec1384
overseeminga1398
kenninga1400
seemingc1400
visage1422
rinda1450
semenauntc1450
'pearance1456
outwardc1475
representation1489
favour?a1500
figurea1522
assemblant1523
prospect?1533
respect1535
visure1545
perceiverance1546
outwardshine1549
view1556
species1559
utter-shape1566
look1567
physiognomy1567
face1572
paintry1573
visor1575
mienc1586
superficies?1589
behaviour1590
aspect1594
complexion1597
confrontment1604
show1604
aira1616
beseeminga1616
formality1615
resemblancea1616
blush1620
upcomea1630
presentment1637
scheme1655
sensation1662
visibility1669
plumage1707
facies1727
remark1748
extrinsica1797
exterior1801
showance1820
the cut of one's jib1823
personnel1839
personal appearance1842
what-like1853
look-see1898
outwall1933
visuality1938
prosopon1947
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. iii. 5 Hauynge sothli the spice, or licnesse, of pite, forsothe denyinge the vertu of it.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Thess. v. 22 Absteyne ȝou fro al yuel spice, or liknesse.
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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun]
houseleOE
bread and winea1225
sacrament?c1225
sacringc1290
spicec1425
kind?1531
Eucharistc1540
element1556
species1579
elemental1656
mystery1662
symbol1671
waybread1993
c1425 Orolog. Sapient. vi, in Anglia X. 377 So longe tyme dwellith goddis body as ben hole þe spices of þe sacramente.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Platonism > specific features
examplea1398
ideaa1398
irascible affection1398
idee1542
spicec1555
irascible1594
mundane spirit1642
evocation1646
anamnesis1656
mundane soul1665
species1678
theocrasy1842
c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) iii. iii. sig. Fivv Plato affirmeth, that there is set in ye soule of man..certayne spyces, or as it were sedes of thynges.
5.
a. A slight touch or trace of some physical disorder or malady. Now dialect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of > slight attack
spicea1479
touch1600
smatch1647
brush1733
waff1808
whiff1837
a1479 J. Hardyng Chron. Pref. xxv Though this werke haue some spice of blindnesse, Yet is the autoure not to bee blamed muche.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274/1 Spyce of the axes.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 517 A paine and numnesse in his legges,..Strabo calleth it a spice of the gowte.
1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 44 Sure I am, their whole family seemes to have a spice of the same malady.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 111 I had a little Spice of the cold Fit, but it was not much.
1733 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 27 Mar. in Misc. (1745) X. 126 I have been much out of order with a Spice of my Giddiness.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (at cited word) I have a spice of the rheumatism.
b. A slight touch, trace, or share, a dash or flavour, of some thing or quality.In later use frequently with suggestion of sense 1.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a slight touch or trace
specec1330
taste1390
lisounc1400
savourc1400
smatcha1500
smell?a1505
spice1531
smack1539
shadow1586
surmise1586
relish1590
tang1593
touch1597
stain1609
tincture1612
dasha1616
soula1616
twanga1640
whiff1644
haut-goût1650
casta1661
stricturea1672
tinge1736
tinct1752
vestige1756
smattering1764
soupçon1766
smutch1776
shade1791
suspicion1809
lineament1811
trait1815
tint1817
trace1827
skiff1839
spicing1844
smudgea1871
ghost1887
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xix. sig. Kijv Daunsis whiche..contained in them a spice of idolatrie.
1564 Briefe Exam. B ij Those..do go about with these reliques to maynteyne at least a little spyse of Masse.
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. D3 I had my Lattine tongue, and a spice of the French.
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) iv. 164 The contrary practice hath indeed within it a spice of Slander.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋42 There must be a Spice of Romantick Gallantry in the composition of that very Pretty Fellow.
1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 16 The Flemings have a spice of obstinacy in their character.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 280 The horse..had a considerable spice of devil in his composition.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady ii. 49 A certain gentle rebuke at your negligence and a spice of jealousy too.
c. A specimen or sample. rare.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen
taste1390
muster1400
sample1428
scantillon1465
say1525
casta1556
assay1581
show1582
shave1604
trial1612
essay1614
pattern1648
trial-piece1663
dasha1672
swatch1697
spice1790
sampler1823
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl. Spice, a sample. I gave him a spice of his behaviour.
1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xi. 66 He would often give the company a spice of what he had learned at school.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > highway robbery > by footpad
low-padding1671
footpadding1695
low toby1807
spice1819
footpaddery1859
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman > footpad
trailer1591
commissioner of Newmarket heath1592
foot land-raker1598
striker1598
padder1610
footman1615
footpad1670
low pad1673
spice1819
padfoot1838
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) The spice is the game of footpad robbery... A spice is a footpad robber.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
(a) In combinations denoting receptacles or places for holding spice. Also spice-box n., etc.† spice bust n. Obsolete
spice-bag n.
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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Alcartaz para especias A spice bag, a coffin for spice.
spice-bowl n.
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1665 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 50 At Jeanses with spice-bolls with..Curteyne and Grenwode, 7d.
1727 W. Somerville Fables in Wks. (1790) II. 106 In cradles, whittles, spice-bowls, sack, Whate'er the wanton gossips lack.
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1489 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 131 Þe dosane of siluer spvnis, siluer salt-fat, & spice bust.
spice-cabinet n.
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1893–4 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 120/3 Spice cabinets, 90c.
spice-dish n.
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1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 Also a spyce disshe of seluer.
spice-house n.
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1468–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 92 Pro nova construccione unius spyce-house ad exitum Coquine, 30s.
1591 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XXII. 121 Andro Quhyte, maister in the spicehous.
spice jar n.
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1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 359/3 German china cereal and spice jars..with names of spices or cereals on each jar.
1977 C. Watson One Man's Meat iii. 25 The dining enclosure..was screened from cook top and sluice unit by rubber plants and rows of spice jars.
spice larder n.
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1588 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XXI. 368 David Manteithe, maister in the spyce lardner.
spice-warehouse n.
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1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India iv. 171 It is the Bazaar, in which..the spice-warehouses predominate.
(b) In preparations in which spice is an ingredient.
spice-ball n.
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1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Spice-balls, same as Faggits [a kind of sausages made of the liver and lights of a pig, boiled with sweet herbs, and finely chopped].
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 71 There are very likely other ingredients..in the proper spice-balls, and a native ‘vet’..will withhold some principal ingredient while pretending to give you the whole recipe.
spice-bread n.
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1555 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 91 After durge speysse-bred and wine.
1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 728 His comparing of the sacrament with spicebread and cake-bread sauoureth of a mynde that..derideth all religion.
1897 R. M. Gilchrist Peakland Faggot 69 The landlady was busily kneading spice-bread.
spice-broth n.
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1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. App. 336 A smoking Prize of Spice-Broth.
spice-bun n.
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1857 Househ. Words XVI. 201 They all..sat down to regale on the tea and spice-buns we had provided.
spice dumpling n.
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1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 22 There will be pies and spice dumplings.
spice-pudding n.
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?1824 H. H. Piper Ess. Pronunc. & Dial. Sheffield 22 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Spice-pudding.
(c) Also miscellaneous.
spice-bazaar n.
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1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 6 Scepticos heard this popular Figment in the spice-bazaar.
spice-blossom n.
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a1821 J. Keats Hyperion (new ed.) 6 in Misc. Philobiblon Soc. (1856–7) III Where trees of every clime,..With plantane and spice-blossoms, made a screen.
spice-merchant n.
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1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings x. 15 The traffique of the spice-merchants.
spice-plant n.
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1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxix. §5383 Examples of the most useful spice plants.
spice-shop n.
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c1475 Cath. Angl. 355/1 A Spice schope, apotheca vel ipotheca.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A spice shop, een specerye winckel.
1860 Ingledew Ballads Yks. 278 This wor a spice shop, where t' lads met.
spice-stall n.
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1885 Broad Yks. 25 Temptin' spice-stalls rang'd i' rows.
spice-trade n.
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1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 39 If the French King can establish a Spice Trade, wherein he is wonderously industruous.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 331 The good fortune of the Dutch, is rendering themselves masters of the spice-trade.
spice tree n.
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1590 in Archaeol. XL. 333 Item, iij spice treyes, xvjd.
b.
(a)
spice-bearer n.
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1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Burial In the splendid funeral procession of Herod, 500 of his servants attended as spice-bearers.
spice-seller n.
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1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A spice seller, een specerye verkooper.
spice-vendor n.
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1890 P. H. Hunter After Exile II. vi. 133 The goldsmiths and spice-vendors voluntarily contracted for particular..portions of wall.
(b)
spice-bearing adj.
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1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 647 The spice-bearing trees of the Moluccas.
spice-breathing adj.
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1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) iii. ccxiv. 40 As one..doth wondring go Through those spice-breathing paths.
1858 Brit. Q. Rev. 56 344 Raleigh's search after spice-breathing islands and gold-paved cities.
spice-burnt adj.
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1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvi. 114 Rarer than the onely Fowle of Spice-burnt Ashes bread.
spice-enrichened adj.
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1940 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Georgics ii. 39 Nor all Arabia's acres of spice-enrichened soil.
spice-fraught adj.
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1868 J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occasions 42 Transport fresh as spice-fraught gale.
spice-sweet adj.
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1953 W. de la Mare O Lovely England 51 The spice-sweet gorse.
spice-warmed adj.
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a1847 E. Cook Sunshine iv. 3 The winter hours were long to him who had no spice-warmed cup.
C2. Special combinations.† spice-conscience n. Obsolete (attributive)† spice-conscienced adj. Obsolete having a delicate or tender conscience.† spice mortar n. Obsolete a mortar used for braying or pounding spices in.
spice apple n. a variety of the ordinary apple.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
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pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
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renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
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puffin1589
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gastlet1600
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pomeroy1600
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pome-paradise1601
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John apple1604
honey apple1611
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musk apple1611
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spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
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Westbury apple1664
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nonsuch1676
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fennel apple1699
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genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Espice,..the Spice apple (whereof excellent Cyder is made).
1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 1 Aromatic Russet, D. (Brown Spice,..Spice Apple).
spice-berry n. North American winter-green ( Gaultheria procumbens).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs
wintergreen1778
mountain tea1785
spice-berry1792
partridgeberry1814
tea-berry1818
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
ivy-berry1840
partridge bush1843
Gaultheria1848
checker-berry1852
partridge-vine1860
snowberry1866
one-berry1873
1792 G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. Western Territory N. Amer. 216 There is a variety of shrubs in every part of the country, the principal of which are the myrtle and spice berry.
1852 C. P. Traill Canad. Crusoes vi. 177 The little creeping wintergreen,..which the Canadians call spice-berry.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 404 The queen..is said to be the lovely, creeping snowberry.., although others give the prize to the spice-berry.
spice-bush n. U.S. wild allspice, fever-bush ( Benzoin odoriferum); also, an aromatic Californian tree of the laurel family.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > spice-bush
feverwood1682
spice-wood1756
spice-bush1770
allspice1830
1770 G. Washington Jrnl. 15 Oct. (1925) I. 409 The Soil..being as black as Coal and the Growth, Walnut, Cherry, Spice Bushes.
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 161 The Laurus benzoin, called Spice-bush, has scarlet berries, and is an aromatic plant.
1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 316 There the spice-bush lifts Her leafy lances.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 821/2 Oreodaphne californica is a common tree in the mountainous parts of California, where it goes by a variety of names, such as Mountain Laurel, Spice-bush, Balm of Heaven.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adjective] > conscientious > excessively conscientious
scripulousc1443
overscrupulous1549
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conscionable1559
squeamish1581
spice-conscienced1600
spice-consciencec1613
scrupulous1779
mealy-mouthed1809
c1613 S. Rowlands Four Knaves (Percy Soc.) 97 Let spice-conscience fellows talke their fill, Mine owne's mine owne.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adjective] > conscientious > excessively conscientious
scripulousc1443
overscrupulous1549
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conscionable1559
squeamish1581
spice-conscienced1600
spice-consciencec1613
scrupulous1779
mealy-mouthed1809
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xxvii. 236 To chuse a third time they made a scruple, so spice conscienced were they.
spice-islands n. the islands in the East from which spices were imported.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Malaysia and Indonesia > [noun] > specific islands
spice-islands1711
spice-isle1885
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶5 My Friend Sir Andrew calls..the Spice-Islands our Hot-Beds.
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. xxxiv. (note) To find the spice islands of the East was his [Columbus's] proposal at the court of Spain.
1834 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 10 July Like breezes blown from spice-islands of Youth and Hope.
1890 Cassell's Pop. Educ. IV. 156/2 Malaysia..includes..Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes, and the Moluccas or Spice Islands.
spice-isle n. poetic rare one of the spice-islands.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Malaysia and Indonesia > [noun] > specific islands
spice-islands1711
spice-isle1885
1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. Sept. 121 Where spice-isles nestle on the star-trod seas.
spice-land n. a country which produces spices (in quots. figurative).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > pleasant place
spice-land1864
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 153 Those spice-lands of character which we..must reach..by weary voyages.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 192 The honeyed sweetness of the spice-land.
spice mill n. a small hand-machine for grinding spices.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > grinder > for spices
pepper-quernOE
mustard stone1481
spice mortar1560
mustard mill1588
pepper mill1631
pepper grinder1859
spice mill1862
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 6141 Pepper and spice mills.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > grinder > for spices
pepper-quernOE
mustard stone1481
spice mortar1560
mustard mill1588
pepper mill1631
pepper grinder1859
spice mill1862
1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xcvi. sig. C That spyce mortar to sell it be you wyllyng?
1628 R. Norton Gunner 62 A Grocers or Apothecaryes spice Morter.
spice-nut n. a gingerbread nut.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > gingerbread
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ginger nut1786
parkin1800
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parliament1812
parliament cake1818
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spice-nut1829
Pfefferkuchen1856
Hoosier cake1859
1829 T. Hook Bank to Barnes 120 I passed a few minutes and a bad shilling in bargaining for some spice-nuts.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 321 To induce you to purchase half a pound of the real spice nuts.
spice-tea n. U.S. (see quot.).
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1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 395 Spice-tea is..made from another laurel common at the South, the spice~bush.
spice-tree n. a spice-bearing tree.
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1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 249 The laurel which bears it is, as well as spice-trees, a plant of no great elevation.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 510 As though in some Arabian plain he stood, Anigh the border of a spice-tree wood.
spice-wood n. (a) U.S. the spice-bush; (b) wood of spice-bearing shrubs.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > spice-bush
feverwood1682
spice-wood1756
spice-bush1770
allspice1830
1756 P. Kalm Resa til Norra Amer. II. 204 Spicewood. (Laurus æstivalis. Spec. 370).
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Spice Wood, Laurus.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 97 The Spice-wood (Laurus Benzoin) or..Feverbush.
1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 59 Spicewood and sassafras budding together.
a1821 J. Keats Hyperion (new ed.) 12 in Misc. Philobiblon Soc. (1856–7) III Many heaps Of other crisped spicewood.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 329 Benzoin odoriferum... Spice Wood.
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slang. Usually with capital initial. Any of various artificially synthesized substances which when smoked or inhaled bind to cannabinoid receptors in the body and can produce an effect similar to smoking cannabis, although often associated with other severe adverse effects such as marked sympathomimetic stimulation, kidney damage, and acute psychosis.Formerly known as a ‘legal high' though the production and supply of all such substances has been prohibited in the UK by the Psychoactive Substances Act of 2016.
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2008 Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Nexis) 18 Dec. Spice..had become increasingly popular..as it was sold as a natural herbal mixture that did not contain cannabis and did not fall under any anti-drug laws.
2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 July a14/4 Spice, a synthetic cannabinoid that is similar to cannabis... The drug is sprayed onto dried leaves..which users smoke.
2014 N. Englander tr. E. Keret in New Yorker 1 Dec. ‘I've..started smoking Spice...’ ‘I can't bring her that synthetic shit,’ I tell him.
2017 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 19 May 6 Cleworth verbally abused members of the public..and openly smoked Spice in Piccadilly Gardens.
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spicev.
/spʌɪs/, U.S. /spaɪs/ 1. transitive.
a. To prepare or season (food, etc.) with a spice or spices. Also allusively (quot. 1821) and in extended sense.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > season with spice
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bespice1593
flower1682
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 283 Shulde no curyous clothe comen on hys rugge, Ne no mete in his mouth þat maister Iohan spiced.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ki/1 To Spice, condire.
a1600 T. Deloney Strange Hist. (1602) vij. sig. Bviij Yet his faire bodie was full sore infected, So ill they spiced both his fleshe and fishe.
1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxiv. 10 Consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burnt. View more context for this quotation
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 912 It is spiced at pleasure with Ginger, Saffron [etc.].
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. viii. 212 ‘Fetch him wine,’..said the alchemist. ‘Aha! and thou wouldst spice it for me,..wouldst thou not?’
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 58 She..spiced the toast with her own hands.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 291 Anciently ambergris was much used for spicing wines.
b. figurative. To season, to affect the character or quality of, by means of some addition or modification; usually with with. Also (colloquial) with up, to enliven, to make more interesting or racy.In quot. 1822 intransitive.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > make piquantly exciting
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cantharidize1812
whoosh1909
zap1979
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 257/2 One special thing, with which he spised al the poison.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 19 Me thinke your conscience is to much spiced with sodaine deuotion.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect To Rdr. sig. A3v I have inserted many passages of mirth concerning them, to spice the rest of my more serious discourse.
1684 J. Bunyan Advice to Sufferers in Wks. (1885) II. 728 His holy harmless and profitable notions, because they are spiced with grace, yield to him comfort, joy, and peace.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 79 Mind to spice high with Latin.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 103 Hardship and hard work, spiced with the stimulants of wild adventure.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xviii. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 59 O, why should Love,..Spice his fair banquet with the dust of death?
1891 S. Baring-Gould In Troubadour-land iii. 39 The reader will think I have given him a dull chapter,..so I will..add an anecdote, to spice it.
1927 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 390/1 The brazen forgery in The Gentlemen's Magazine seems to have been a facetious attempt to spice up a sober-toned, political news-letter.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 8 Apr. (Wedding Suppl.) 15/2 One Tucson couple spiced up a wedding with circus performances, complete with a juggler and unicyclist.
c. slang. To adulterate (soot).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate > specific soot
spice1798
1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 302 The chimney-sweepers who sell soot in London, mix with it ashes and earth, sifted very small and fine: this they term Spicing the soot.
2. transitive.† a. To embalm, to preserve with spices. Obsolete.† b. To perfume with or as with spices.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > embalm
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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 287 The body of this holy man spicede with mony spices was sende to his churche.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 117v They drye them, spyce them..and so reuerently place them in certeyne tabernacles.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. i. 3/1 His body beeing seared and spicen was conuaied into his countrie of Alua.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > impart perfume [verb (transitive)] > impart specific fragrance
civet1601
bemusk1611
thyme1628
musk1632
ambera1640
spice1648
rose-water1655
jessamy1688
becivet1805
lavender1820
rose1875
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. I8v Treading upon Vermilion And Amber; Spiceing the Chafte Aire with fumes of Paradise.
c. Cant. To rob; to deprive of by robbery.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > steal from
picka1350
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touch1631
pinch1632
to pick up1687
to speak with ——1725
knock1767
shab1787
jump1789
to speak to ——1800
shake1811
spice1819
sting1819
tap1879
to knock over1928
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) A rogue will say, I spiced the swell of so much, naming the booty obtained.
d. To dose (a horse) with spice in order to mislead the buyer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > tamper with
bishop1727
fire1740
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ginger1824
spice1841
shot1890
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. vii. 111 [He] knew nothing of spicing a horse, or giving him a ball.
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1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 382 From drunkennesse proceedeth trembling handes, spiced with the Palsie.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > excrete
slicec1450
mutea1475
mutessa1475
spice1682
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. 183 Dar'st thou presume (profane!) to spice i' th' Quire?
Derivatives
ˈspicing n. also withup.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > making piquantly exciting
spicing1844
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a slight touch or trace
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soula1616
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smattering1764
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smutch1776
shade1791
suspicion1809
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spicing1844
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ghost1887
1844 M. Stuart Old Test. Canon §viii. (1849) 185 The story..although mixed with a spicing of fable in all probability has some truth for its basis.
1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 133 Boredom sharpened by a spicing of mischief.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 127 There is no instance..of the spicing up of a simple harmonic basis.
spicing apple n. a variety of apple (cf. spice apple n. at spice n. Compounds 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > other apples
Bretonc1390
stur1483
marigold apple1577
fritter1591
Margaret1597
critling1611
cat's-head1617
rosiar1620
rose apple1626
snouting1651
roundling1655
mayflower1664
red greening1664
seaming1664
sheep's snout1664
spicing apple1664
violet-apple1664
pomme d'api1676
rathe-ripe1677
rose1678
lady's finger1688
stone apple1736
sops-in-wine1764
stone pippin1769
Manx codlin1818
Rymer1820
Roxbury russet1826
souring1832
genet1833
tompot1836
Wagener1848
flesh and blood1853
pick-thong1871
virgin1886
Jon1931
Idared1942
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva The Kirkham Apple,..Cushion Apple, Spicing, May-flower.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 291 The Spicing Apple, of all Apples that are marked Red, is the meanest.
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- multicyclic
- multicylinder
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- multicystic
- multiday
- multidaylight
- multideck
- multidenominational
- multidentate
- multidenticulate
- multidestination
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- multidiameter
- multidigit
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