Spicery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spicery \Spi"cer*y\, n. [OF. espicerie, F. ['e]picerie.]
     1. Spices, in general. --Chaucer.
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     2. A repository of spices. --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spicery
       n : the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly
           flavored [syn: {spiciness}, {spice}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Spicery
     Heb. nechoth, identified with the Arabic naka'at, the gum
     tragacanth, obtained from the astralagus, of which there are
     about twenty species found in Palestine. The tragacanth of
     commerce is obtained from the A. tragacantha. "The gum exudes
     plentifully under the heat of the sun on the leaves, thorns, and
     exteremity of the twigs."