spicery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spicery	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for spicery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spicery n the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored Synonym(s): spiciness, spice, spicery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spicery \Spi"cer*y\, n. [OF. espicerie, F. [82]picerie.] 1. Spices, in general. --Chaucer. 2. A repository of spices. --Addison.
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."