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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



... That sing about the golden tree: Along the crisped shades and bowres Revels the spruce and jocond Spring, The Graces, and the rosie-boosom'd Howres, Thither all their bounties bring, That there eternal Summer dwels, And West winds, with musky wing About the cedar'n alleys fling 990 Nard, and Cassia's balmy smels. Iris there with humid bow, Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hew Then her purfl'd scarf can shew, And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of Hyacinth, ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton



Words linked to "Nard" :   emollient, ointment, cream



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