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lign-aloes|laɪnˈæləʊz|
Also 4–5 ligne aloes, 6–9 lignaloe, 9 (sense c) linaloa, -aloe.
[ad. late L. lignum aloēs ‘wood of the aloe’ (aloēs genitive of aloē).]
a. The bitter drug aloes; = aloe 3.
b. Aloes-wood; = aloe 1.
c. [= Sp. linaloe.] An aromatic wood obtained from a Mexican tree of the genus Bursera.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1109 (1137) The woful teris..As bittre weren..as is ligne Aloes or galle. 1577Frampton Joyfull Newes 84 b, Making a Pomander of it, mingled with Muske, Lignaloe, it doeth comfort the braine. 1611Bible Num. xxiv. 6 The trees of Lign-Aloes which the Lord hath planted. 1721Bailey, Lign-Aloes, the Wood of Aloes, a Drug of great Price. 1859Hooker in Man. Sci. Enq. 428 Lign aloe.—The name of a remarkably aromatic wood sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1855 from the department of Vera Cruz in Mexico. 1867J. Ingelow Story Doom i. 18 Where the dew distilled All night from leaves of old lign aloe trees. 1883Ogilvie Suppl., Linaloa, A Mexican wood [etc.]. |