Word Meanings - HIPPOCRAS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.

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• SPICULA
  A little spike; a spikelet. A pointed fleshy appendage.
• SPICEWOOD
  An American shrub , the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.
• SPICULISPONGIAE
  A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.
• SPICATE; SPICATED
  Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee.
• CORDIALNESS
  Cordiality. Cotgrave.
• SPICEBUSH
  Spicewood.
• SPICULIFORM
  Having the shape of a spicule.
• SPICA
  A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
• SPICK
  A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.
• CORDIALIZE
  1. To make into a cordial. 2. To render cordial; to reconcile.
• SPICULIGENOUS
  Producing or containing spicules.
• SPICULATE
  Covered with minute spiculæ, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets. (more info) 1. Covered with, or having, spicules.
• SPICKNEL
  An umbelliferous herb having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.
• SPICULAR
  Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
• SPICULUM
  See SPICULE
• SPICINESS
  The quality or state of being spicy.
• SPICE
  1. To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit. She 'll receive thee, but will spice thy bread With flowery poisons. Chapman. 2. To fill
• SPICOUS
  See SPICOSE
• SPICENUT
  A small crisp cake, highly spiced.
• SPICCATO
  Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
• PROSPICIENCE
  The act of looking forward.
• 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
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• 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
• AUSPICIAL
  Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• HARUSPICATION
  See TYLOR
• PERSPICIL
  An optical glass; a telescope. Crashaw.
• MISPICKEL
  Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
• PERSPICIENCE
  The act of looking sharply. Bailey.
• DESPICIENCY
  A looking down; despection.
• PRECORDIAL
  Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.