Word Meanings - SPIKENARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.

• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Spikenard
  An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for t
• Stillborn
  Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
• Unitarian
  One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Unitizing
  of Unitize
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• STILLHUNT
  A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. [U.S.]
• Medicine
  The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Preparable
  Capable of being prepared.
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Still-burn
  To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
• Unitarianism
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Unitize
  To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• STILLSONWRENCH
  A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece sliding in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.
• Native
  Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.

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