Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Spices considered as a group.
- noun The aromatic or pungent quality of spices.
- noun Obsolete A place where spices are stored.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Spices collectively.
- noun A spicy substance; something used as a spice.
- noun A repository of spices; a grocery or buttery; a store of kitchen supplies in general.
- noun A spicy quality or effect; an aromatic effluence; spiciness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Spices, in general.
- noun A repository of spices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Spices , in general. - noun archaic A
repository of spices.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored
Etymologies
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Examples
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Take a Saracen, young and fat; In haste let the thief be slain, Opened, and his skin off flayn; And sodden full hastily, With powder and with spicery, And with saffron of good colour.
The Talisman 2008
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Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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There are delightful libraries, more aromatic than stores of spicery; there are luxuriant parks of all manner of volumes; there are Academic meads shaken by the tramp of scholars; there are lounges of Athens; walks of the Peripatetics; peaks of Parnassus; and porches of the Stoics.
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And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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There grow all manner of spicery, more plenteously than in any other country, as of ginger, cloves-gilofre, canell, seedwall, nutmegs and maces.
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And on that other part, in the Isle of Cathay, men find all manner thing that is need to man — cloths of gold, of silk, of spicery and all manner avoirdupois.
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By all that country groweth good ginger, and therefore thither go the merchants for spicery.
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And then they kneeled down and made their devotions, and there was such a savour as all the spicery in the world had been there.
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And herewithal there was such a savour as all the spicery of the world had been there.
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