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ular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff. Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew. Dryden.

Fit; propitious. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Species; kind. [Obs.] The spices of penance ben three. Chaucer. Abstain you from all evil spice. Wyclif (1. Thess,v. 22). Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative. Sir T. Elyot.

Spicewood.

A small crisp cake, highly spiced.

One who seasons with spice.

Spices, in general. Chaucer.

Benzoin), the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.

See Tapish.

to come out of concealment. [Obs.] Massinger.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

acterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon spices.

Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. [R.]

mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton.

force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. Ex. xxxix. 3.