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Nard   /nɑrd/   Listen
Nard

noun
1.
An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.  Synonym: spikenard.





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"Nard" Quotes from Famous Books



... altar-flame, fling in the spices, Nard, Cinnamon, amomum, benzoin. Let all the air reel into a mist of odour, As in the midmost heart of Paradise. Lay down the Lydian carpets for the king. The king should pace on purple to his bride, And music there to greet my lord the ...
— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson
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... fancy it sloping until The same multitudinous throb and thrill That vibrate under your dizzy eye 230 In ripples of orange and pink are sent Where the poppied sails doze on the yard, And the clumsy junk and proa lie Sunk deep with precious woods and nard, 'Mid the palmy isles of the Orient. Those leaning towers of clouded white On the farthest brink of doubtful ocean, That shorten and shorten out of sight, Yet seem on the selfsame spot to stay, Receding with a motionless motion, 240 Fading to dubious films of gray, Lost, dimly found, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
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Words linked to "Nard" :   cream, ointment, emollient


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