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‖ nardus Now rare.|ˈnɑːdəs|
[L. nardus: see nard n.]
Nard, spikenard (the ointment and plant). Also attrib. and fig.
971Blickl. Hom. 73 Þær wæron þreo þa betstan [wyrta], ele, & nardus, & spica. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cx. (1495) 672 Nardus is a lytyll herbe wyth pryckes and smellyth wel..and therof is treble manere kynde, Indica, Celtica, and Sirica. 1526Tindale John xii. 3 A pounde of oyntment called nardus. 1535Coverdale Mark xiv. 3 There came a woman which had a boxe of pure and costly Nardus oyntement. 1578Lyte Dodoens 307 It is good to be poured into the eares with oyle of roses, or Nardus. 1600Fairfax Tasso xviii. xv, Vpon his brest and forehead gently blew The aire, that balme and nardus breath'd vnseene. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. vi. ii. 597/2 Edward is dead,..A King, or fragrant Nardus hight, a gracious princely Peer. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxix. 217 They..scattered this valuable water of the nardus. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 347/1 The first kind being called nardus, and distinguished into the Syrian and Indian varieties. |