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The spicebush (Lindera benzoin). Flowers of benzoin, benzoic acid. See under Benzoic.

A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

es of capsicum (C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.

Capable of delighting; delightful. [Obs.] Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.

placed with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.

with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.

d including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.

bout the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes. -- Fever bush (Bot.), the wild allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood. -- Fever powder. Same as Jame's powder. -- Fever root (Bot.), an American herb of the genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian. -- Fever sore, a carious ul…

To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs.]

A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. Chaucer. Against the grain, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.-- A grain of allowance, a slight in…

A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities. Grocer's itch (Med.), a disease of the akin, caused by handling sugar and treacle.