Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
horseradish-tree , 2.
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Examples
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For the box was already doomed; it was to pass from its green medicine-tree, reverend precinct, and devout attendants; to be handled by the profane; to cross three seas; to come to land under the foolscap of St. Paul's; to be domesticated within the hail of
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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On Tamaiti's medicine-tree, for instance, the model canoes are hung up ex voto for a prosperous voyage, and must therefore be dedicated to Taburik, god of the weather; but the stone in front is the place of sick folk come to pacify Chench.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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