Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A drug, the inspissated juice of several species of aloe.
- The fragrant resin or wood of the agallochum; lign-aloes; aloes-wood; wood-aloes: the usual meaning in the Bible. See
agallochum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a purgative made from the leaves of aloe. Same as
aloe{3} .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
aloe . - noun plurale tantum The resin of the trees Aquilaria agallocha or Aquilaria malaccensis, known for their fragrant odour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a purgative made from the leaves of aloe
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Examples
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Secondly, woods of the finest descriptions, for ship-building, and other purposes; besides aloes wood (_lignum aloes_), and arang or ebony wood, canes, and ratans.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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I set to work collecting a number of pieces of Chinese and Comorin aloes-wood and I bound them together with ropes from the wreckage; then I chose out from the broken-up ships straight planks of even size and fixed them firmly upon the aloes-wood, making me a boat-raft a little narrower than the channel of the stream; and I tied it tightly and firmly as though it were nailed.
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Notables, some were of balass-ruby and some of carnelian, others of coral or Comorin aloes-wood and yet others of ebony or silver or gold; and each had his own idol, after the measure of his competence; whilst the idols of the common soldiers and of the people were some of granite, some of wood, some of pottery and some of mud; and all were of various hues yellow and red; green, black and white.
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The bride's ministry of "myrrh and aloes" is recorded (Joh 19: 39).
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Al – Usirat,69 whence cometh the Comorin aloes-wood and thence to another island, five days’ journey in length, where grows the Chinese lign-aloes, which is better than the Comorin; but the people of this island70 are fouler of condition and religion than those of the other, for that they love fornication and wine-bibbing, and know not prayer nor call to prayer.
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-- The drug called aloes is the bitter, resinous, inspissated juice of the leaves of various species of an arborescent plant of the lily family, with a developed stem and large succulent leaves, growing principally in tropical and sub-tropical regions, and having a wide extent of range, being produced in Borneo and the East, Africa,
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Comorin aloes-wood and thence to another island, five days 'journey in length, where grows the Chinese lign-aloes, which is better than the Comorin; but the people of this island [FN#70] are fouler of condition and religion than those of the other, for that they love fornication and wine-bibbing, and know not prayer nor call to prayer.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Besides, since nature supplies cold as sparingly, we must do as the apothecaries do who, when they cannot get a simple, take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such as aloes for balsam, cassia for cinnamon.
The New Organon 2005
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The new list excluded the so-called arborescent (tree-like) species such as aloes, tree ferns and cycads.
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Minor articles of exportation are, — general spiceries (ginger, cardamons, &c.); Eastern perfumes, such as aloes-wood, attar of rose, attar of pink and others; tamarinds from
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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...returning home by ferry and full bus
where workers spit the aloes taste of day
and talk of politics and flood and drouth...
- Peter Reading, Letter in Winter, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008