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A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented f…

The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicati…

A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.

The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa sh…

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts…

The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made in…

A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, t…

Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians,…

Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.