Word Meanings - SPICER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who seasons with spice. 2. One who deals in spice. Piers Plowman.

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• SPICEWOOD
  An American shrub , the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.
• SPICEBUSH
  Spicewood.
• SPICE
  espece, F. épice spice, espèce species, fr. L. species particular sort or kind, a species, a sight, appearance, show, LL., spices, drugs, etc., of the same sort, fr. L. specere to look. See Spy, and 1. Species; kind. The spices of penance ben
• SPICENUT
  A small crisp cake, highly spiced.
• PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
  1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.
• SPICERY
  1. Spices, in general. Chaucer. 2. A repository of spices. Addison.
• SPICER
  1. One who seasons with spice. 2. One who deals in spice. Piers Plowman.
• 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
• AUSPICE
  1. A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future. 2. Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will
• BESPICE
  To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.
• HARUSPICE
  A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.