Crossword clues for nard
nard
- Pharmaceutical ingredient
- Himalayan plant
- Soothing substance
- Plant of the valerian family
- Unguent
- Aromatic plant
- Aromatic Himalayan plant
- An ointment
- Ointment of old
- Quaint ointment
- Plant used in perfume
- Ointment of the ancients
- Moor grass
- Fragrant oil source
- Aromatic ointment
- An aromatic plant
- Aromatic herb used by the ancients
- Aromatic herb
- В В Aromatic herb used by the ancients
- Ancient fragrance
- Olden ointment
- Source of a fragrant oil
- An aromatic ointment used in antiquity
- Plant or ointment
- Fragrant ointment of antiquity
- Ointment-yielding plant
- Aromatic ointment used in antiquity (Var.)
- Biblical ointment
- Ancient ointment
- Matgrass
- Kind of ointment
- Plant used in ancient ointments
- Salve
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nard \Nard\ (n[aum]rd), n. [AS., fr. L. nardus, Gr. na`rdos; cf. Heb. n[^e]rd, Per. nard, Scr. nalada.]
(Bot.) An East Indian plant ( Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.
An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.
(Bot.) A kind of grass ( Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French narde (Modern French nard), from Latin nardus, from Greek nardos, of Eastern origin (compare Hebrew ner'd, plural n'radim; Arabic and Persian nardin, Sanskrit narada, nalada, name of an aromatic balsam).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, flatulence, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments. 2 A fragrant oil formerly much prized from the plant. 3 spikenard Etymology 2
n. (context US 1980s slang usually plural English) testicles.
WordNet
n. an aromatic ointment used in antiquity [syn: spikenard]
Wikipedia
Nard may refer to:
- Nard (album), a 1981 album by Bernard Wright
- Nard (game) (نرد), the Persian board game similar to backgammon
- Nard (plant) or spikenard, an aromatic oil derived from a plant
- The Nard, a nickname for the city of Oxnard, California in the United States
- Nard, an album by American funk and jazz keyboardist Bernard Wright
- Nard, Croatia, a village near Valpovo, Croatia
Nard (or nardshir, or narde, Persian نرد) is a board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to rolls of dice. It is similar to backgammon in that it uses the same board, but it has different initial positions and rules.
Usage examples of "nard".
I have it in musk, civet, amber, Phoenicobalanus, the decoction of turmerick, sesana, nard, spikenard, calamus odoratus, stacte, opobalsamum, amomum, storax, ladanum, aspalathum, opoponax, oenanthe.
I tried to recall the names of both the spices I had known and those I had only heard of, words that would intoxicate him like perfumes, and for him I listed malabaster, incense, nard, lycium, sandal, saffron, ginger, cardamom, senna, zedoaria, laurel, marjoram, coriander, dill, thyme, clove, sesame, poppy, nutmeg, citronella, curcuma, and cumin.
Some of them sell galbanum and nard, and curious perfumes from the islands of the Indian Sea, and the thick oil of red roses, and myrrh and little nail-shaped cloves.
One hundred of the many hundreds of litters piled with frankincense, myrrh, nard and other costly, burnable aromatics were stacked as a fence between the back row of chariots and the crowd, with shoulder-to-shoulder soldiers as an additional barrier.
I have it in musk, civet, amber, Phoenicobalanus, the decoction of turmerick, sesana, nard, spikenard, calamus odoratus, stacte, opobalsamum, amomum, storax, ladanum, aspalathum, opoponax, oenanthe.
One hundred of the many hundreds of litters piled with frankincense, myrrh, nard and other costly, burnable aromatics were stacked as a fence between the back row of chariots and the crowd, with shoulder-to-shoulder soldiers as an additional barrier.
Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem UT NOVETUR SEXUS OMNIS CORPORIS MYSTERIUM till she was there unmaided.
Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem Ut novetur sexus omnis corporis mysterium till she was there unmaided.