Spice
[spaɪs]
Definition
(noun.) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food.
(noun.) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative.
(verb.) make more interesting or flavorful; 'Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer'.
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Definition
(n.) Species; kind.
(n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.
(n.) Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.
(v. t.) To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Flavoring, flavor, relish, taste, savor, tincture, dash, infusion, admixture, sprinkling.[2]. Grain, particle, small quantity.
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Definition
n. an aromatic and pungent vegetable substance used as a condiment and for seasoning food—pepper cayenne pepper pimento nutmeg mace vanilla ginger cinnamon cassia &c.: a characteristic touch or taste smack flavour: anything that adds piquancy or interest: an aromatic odour.—v.t. to season with spice: to tincture vary or diversify.—ns. Spice′-box an ornamental box for keeping spices: (coll.) a hot-tempered person; Spice′-bush an aromatic American shrub of the laurel family; Spice′-cake a cake flavoured with spice of some kind.—adjs. Spiced impregnated with a spicy odour: over-scrupulous; Spice′ful aromatic.—ns. Spī′cer one who seasons with spice; Spī′cery spices in general: a repository of spices: spiciness; Spice′-tree an evergreen tree of the Pacific United States yielding a fine hard wood—the Mountain-laurel California-laurel Olive- or Bay-tree and Cajeput; Spice′-wood the spice-bush.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of spice, foretells you will probably damage your own reputation in search of pleasure. For a young woman to dream of eating spice, is an omen of deceitful appearances winning her confidence.
Editor: Pierre
Examples
- I can't bear him—and yet, continued Helena reflectively, with a certain spice of malice, there is something nice about him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Dutch still continue to exclude all other European nations from any direct trade to their spice islands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Oh, I don't deny he had a spice of the Roylands temper, but as to ambition and enterprise, he might as well have been born a carrot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It smells of spice and sugar, but I can't taste it; your wrist is so stiff, and you are so stingy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At length down he came, with an unstable step and a strong flavour of wine and spices about his person. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I think I shall trade, said he, leaning back in his chair, to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I hate tea and silk and spices, and every sort of rubbish his old ships bring, and I don't care how soon they go to the bottom when I own them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If you gave up your highly-spiced dishes, your strong wines, your late hours, your breathing of poisonous air, you would be as healthy as I am. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I expected that the spiced odors of Araby were going to steal over my senses now, but they did not. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Lora