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The berry of the pimento , 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

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The berry of the pimento , 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 allspice ; wild allspice , called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

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• MILDLY
  In a mild manner.
• SPICEWOOD
  An American shrub , the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• PEPPERBRAND
  See BUNT
• BERRYING
  A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.
• FLAVORLESS
  Without flavor; tasteless.
• SPICEBUSH
  Spicewood.
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• JAMAICA
  One of the West India is islands. Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. -- Jamaica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose ,
• PEPPERCORN
  1. A dried berry of the black pepper . 2. Anything insignificant; a particle.
• BERRY
  A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• PEPPERING
  Hot; pungent; peppery. Swift.
• CINNAMONE
  A yellow crystalline substance, 2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• PEPPERMINT
  An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. 2. A volatile oil distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit obtained from it. 3. A lozenge of sugar flavored
• SUPPOSITIVE
  A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. Harris.
• COMBINED
  United closely; confederated; chemically united.
• PEPPERER
  A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper.
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• HOSPICE
  A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard. (more info) strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See
• ALLSPICE
  The berry of the pimento , 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
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• BAYBERRY
  The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle . The fruit of Myrica cerifera ; the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry
• KNOTBERRY
  The cloudberry ; -- so called from its knotted stems.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• JUNEBERRY
  The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree.
• DEWBERRY
  The fruit of certain species of bramble ; in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries. The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots
• CASSIOBERRY
  The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.
• SOAPBERRY TREE
  Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
• BERBERRY
  See BARBERRY
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.