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alōe(s
n.
Additional spellings:
aloes
23 quotations in 1 sense
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Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c)
med.
the drug aloes;
aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik)
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box
n.(2)
60 quotations in 4 senses
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A jar (for salves, cosmetics, spices, etc.), usually cylindrical.
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Nicholas
n.
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(a) Personal name; -- often replacing
Nicol
in later ME; also, name of a ship; (b)
seint Nicholas
, St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Asia Minor;
seint Nicholas chirche, chirche of seint Nicholas
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