Mustard
['mʌstəd] or ['mʌstɚd]
Definition
(noun.) leaves eaten as cooked greens.
(noun.) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds.
(noun.) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica.
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Definition
(n.) The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum).
(n.) A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic.
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Definition
n. a plant of the genus Brassica formerly classed as Sinapis having a pungent taste: the seed thereof ground and used as a seasoning for meat as a plaster &c.—French mustard mustard prepared for table by adding salt sugar vinegar &c.; Wild mustard the charlock.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer, and to the seafaring it prognosticates wealth. To eat mustard seed and feel the burning in your mouth, denotes that you will repent bitterly some hasty action, which has caused you to suffer. To dream of eating green mustard cooked, indicates the lavish waste of fortune, and mental strain. For a young woman to eat newly grown mustard, foretells that she will sacrifice wealth for personal desires.
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Examples
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We feed him once a day, and not too much then, so that he is always as keen as mustard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To every gallon of juice to be filtered there is placed in the filter 2 ounces of charcoal, 2 scruples of crushed mustard seed, and 6 drachms of ground sassafras root. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- And his soul was dark and gloomy, it had only one grain of living hope, like a grain of mustard seed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Bob Sawyer slightly nodded his assent to the proposition, and asked Mr. Benjamin Allen for the mustard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Is this my mustard- seed? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have thought we should carry a little mustard on them all, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We feed him once a day, and not too much then, so that he is always as keen as mustard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To every gallon of juice to be filtered there is placed in the filter 2 ounces of charcoal, 2 scruples of crushed mustard seed, and 6 drachms of ground sassafras root. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- And his soul was dark and gloomy, it had only one grain of living hope, like a grain of mustard seed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Bob Sawyer slightly nodded his assent to the proposition, and asked Mr. Benjamin Allen for the mustard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Is this my mustard- seed? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have thought we should carry a little mustard on them all, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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