What is "lignum"

Usage examples of "lignum".

Among the plants were the pointed, brittle fingers of cacti and the menace of skeleton thorn trees, with only the darker sheen of lignum vitae and sea lavender to break the salty sweep.

CHAPTER XLIX Dutiful Friendship A great annual occasion has come round in the establishment of Mr. Matthew Bagnet, otherwise Lignum Vitae, ex-artilleryman and present bassoon-player.

As they go down the little street and the Bagnets pause for a minute looking after them, Mrs. Bagnet remarks to the worthy Lignum that Mr.

The word Aloes, in Latin Lignum Aloes, is used in the Bible and in many ancient writings to designate a substance totally distinct from the modern Aloes, namely the resinous wood of Aquilaria agallocha, a large tree growing in the Malayan Peninsula.

The ships are freighted by them at the rate of thirty per cent for fine goods, forty-four for pepper, and for lignum aloes, sandalwood, and other drugs, as well as articles of trade in general, forty per cent.

It was a gnarled tree, lignum vitae, the tree with wood so tough that pulley blocks are made from it that are better than metal.

At once, from the direction of the lignum vitae tree, two large black birds, slightly smaller than ravens, whirled in, circled the interior of the cafe amidst a metallic clangour of song unlike the song of any other bird in the world, and untidily landed on the counter within reach of Bond's hand.

Joseph Bagnet, otherwise Lignum Vitae, ex-artilleryman and present bassoon-player.

Albury had taken the boat through to the Gulf side under the Indian Key Bridge and anchored behind Lignum Vitae, one of the largest islands in Florida Bay.

The wood is sometimes sold by chemists in the form of fine shavings, and as such called Lignum Vitae, which are turned green by exposure to the air, and bluish green by the action of nitric fumes.

The box was fashioned of some light-colored wood, perhaps lignum vitae.

From the naked purity of the stable of Bethlehem, made of wood as the lignum vitae of the cross was wood, to the bacchanalia of gold and stone!

The revolver snuggled against his ribs was vastly comforting, freshly reloaded now, all six rounds tipped with lead-cored lignum vitae bullets.

But his cousin John later remarked, with awe at his perseverance, that he had been born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum vitae, which tied North America to Great Britain.

There were a few palm trees on the low ridge, tough undergrowth of lignum vitae and other intensely hard wood, and elsewhere, particularly on the easterly and lowest side of the island, there was mangrove thicket.