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spice(1) (iou) and Possibly (medicine)


spice(1) (iou)



spice noun. ME.
[Aphet. from Old French espice (mod. epice), from Latin species appearance, kind, SPECIES, (late) pl. wares, merchandise (after late Greek use of pl. of eidos form, in senses 'goods', 'groceries', 'spices').]
I. A sort, a kind; a species. Also foll. by of. ME-E17.
Appearance, semblance. rare. LME-M16.
II.
Any of various strongly flavoured or aromatic vegetable substances, used esp. to flavour or scent Food, or as medicines etc.; such substances collectively; spec. (Scot.) pepper. ME.
B. Fussell Beef marinated in Wine, vinegar, and spices.
b. Dried fruit. dial. L17.
c. A medication formerly added to animal feed. obsolete exc. Hist. E18.
fig.
a. A person who or thing which adds interest or piquancy to something. ME.
Dogworld If you..enjoy the added spice of a little danger, this can be an exciting career.
b. A slight flavour or suggestion of something; a trace; a touch of a particular illness (now dial.). L15.
W. Irving The horse..had a considerable spice of devil in his composition.
An odour (as) of spice; spicy fragrance. rare. poet. M16.
Tennyson A summer fann'd with spice.
Comb.: spice bag a bundle of spices tied in muslin etc. to flavour Food during Cooking; spice-berry N. Amer. the checkerberry or wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens; spice-box a lidded box for keeping spices, usu. divided into compartments; spicebush a pungently aromatic N. American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family; spice-cake (a) a cake flavoured with sweet spices; (b) dial. a rich fruit cake; spice-islands Hist. the Moluccas; spice mill a small device for grinding spices by hand; spice-plate Hist. a small dish on which spices were formerly served separately at table; spice rack a freq. wooden rack with holes or shelves for holding separate jars of spices; spicewood US = spicebush above.

Possibly (medicine)


possibly


In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or Exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover. "Can we . . . Possibly his love desert?" (Milton) "When possibly I can, I will return." (Shak)

Source: Websters Dictionary