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A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom.

A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.

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Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina al…

See Apex.

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. [Written also haruspice.]

Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.

shwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

Elegiac; funereal.

Epicedial. -- n.

An epicede.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.

Lenient; assuaging. [Obs.]

A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.