(n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.
Example Sentences:
(1) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
(2) Nawal Nasrallah via GuardianWitness Serves 4 225g minced lean meat 1 small onion, grated 3 tbsp flour 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley ¾ tsp salt ½ tsp ground black pepper ½ tsp coriander seeds, crushed ¼ tsp allspice ¼ tsp ground ginger ¼ tsp curry powder ¼ tsp chilli powder For the sauce 340g potatoes, diced 2 tbsp oil 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped ½ tsp turmeric 115g walnuts, toasted ground in a food processor until oily 715ml water 60ml pomegranate molasses (available at Middle-Eastern stores) 1 tsp salt ½ tsp crushed cardamom ¼ tsp ground black pepper ½ tsp chilli powder 1 Fry the diced potatoes in a little oil until golden brown.
(3) Serves 8-10 For the pastry 250g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 25g ground almonds ¾ tsp ground allspice Grated zest of 1 orange 150g cold butter, diced 100g icing sugar A pinch of salt 1 free-range egg, plus 1 egg yolk For the filling 275ml double cream 4 star anise, powdered, or 3 tsp ground anise Finely grated zest of 1 orange 275g 70% dark chocolate, broken into small pieces 6 free-range egg yolks 1 Blitz the in a food processor to crumbs.
(4) Serves 4 For the stuffing 150g white short-grain rice 300g firm red tomatoes, diced into 5mm cubes ½ bunch spring onions, about 50g, trimmed and thinly sliced ½ bunch flat parsley, about 100g, washed, dried, most of the stalks cut off, chopped ¼ bunch mint, about 50g, leaves only, chopped 2 tbsp sumac ¼ tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground allspice ¼ tsp finely ground black pepper A pinch of salt Juice of 1 large lemon, or to taste 150ml extra virgin olive oil For the swiss chard 1kg swiss chard 1 large ripe tomato, sliced Salt 1 To make the stuffing, first rinse the rice under cold water.
(5) Add the garlic, caraway, allspice and peppercorns, and sauté for five more minutes, until everything is nice and soft.
(6) The recipe for the latter – fragrant with cumin, allspice and fresh coriander – can be found in his book Roast Chicken and Other Stories .
(7) There are Mitt's meat loaf cakes, which he devours "every birthday", according to his wife (5lbs of minced beef, one egg, a chopped onion, some breadcrumbs and some lemon juice, topped with a sauce made from half a cup of ketchup mixed with half a cup of brown sugar, a teaspoon of dry mustard and a quarter teaspoon of allspice).
(8) Second, subjects (N = 38) rated the pleasantness of broths with 0.5, 0.8, 1.1, 1.4, and 1.7% NaCl under three sets of conditions: unflavored, flavored with allspice, majoram, onion and monosodium glutamate, and flavored with glutamate only.
(9) 100ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and cut into 1.5cm slices 1 red pepper, halved, deseeded and cut into 0.5cm slices Salt 2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced thin 2 tsp caraway seeds ¾ tsp ground allspice 10 black peppercorns, gently crushed 1kg cuttlefish, cleaned, skinned and cut into 1.5cm strips (you'll end up with around 450g) 1½ tbsp tomato paste 200ml red wine 3 bay leaves 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves, chopped Zest of ½ orange, grated (optional) Put the oil in a large sauté pan for which you have a lid, and heat on a medium-high flame.
(10) Transfer the roast veg to a large bowl, picking off and discarding the allspice berries.
Evergreen
Definition:
(a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
(n.) An evergreen plant.
(n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(2) C. minuticornis was found in these and in tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen rain forests of S. Thailand and N.W.
(3) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(4) riversi was confined to evergreen forest and its adjacent area.
(5) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(6) The three greatest concerns for Australia in the recent draft include provisions that would further entrench secondary patenting and evergreening, lock in extensions to patent terms, and extend monopoly rights over clinical trial data for certain medicines.” The lead author of the report and a public health lecturer at La Trobe University, Dr Deborah Gleeson, said the consequence was the extra cost of medicines could get passed on to the consumer through increasing the co-payment on government-subsidised drugs, or by restricting access to expensive drugs to those who could afford them.
(7) Her pragmatism is unusual, but then Liu is director of Evergreen, a state-owned old people's home in north Beijing.
(8) But the Evergreen State is not known for its clear days; rain and fog are persistent here year round.
(9) From the sociopathic capitalist machine by way of Mr Burns and the relentless religious optimism of Ned Flanders to the working-class, tense but sometimes faux-sexual interracial relationship between Lenny and Carl, for anyone that wants to look at America under a comedy microscope, you have to start with 742 Evergreen Terrace.
(10) Efforts to prevent sporotrichosis among persons handling evergreen seedlings should include the use of alternate types of packing material (e.g., cedar wood chips or shredded paper) and protective clothing such as gloves and long-sleeved shirts.
(11) It seems impossible – surely she was ageless, like one of those very old, tiny, trees in the Arctic, gnarled and tough as a nut, but nonetheless evergreen.
(12) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(13) Minnelli has been out of fashion for a while, despite having directed – alongside Meet Me In St Louis – some of the truly evergreen musicals of the middle 20th century, especially at MGM under Arthur Freed.
(14) Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member at the Evergreen State College in Washington state and a frequent contributor to publications including the New York Times, agrees, saying that writing for the public forces researchers to work in unfamiliar ways.
(15) Evergreen striker Paul Ifill, playing his 100th game for the Phoenix, provided an injection of pace and guile when he came on after 65 minutes but, although opportunities were created, the finishing wasn't there.
(16) The antimicrobial activities of seven Epicoccum purpurascens strains isolated either from evergreen oak leaves (Quercus ilex) collected over a period of one year, or from the atmosphere were compared in vitro.
(17) 66,000), central Finland, was carried out in 1990 as part of the EVERGREEN-project.
(18) But even if you can afford Evergreen's fees of up to 5,100 yuan (£510) each month, it has just 600 beds, and a waiting list of 1,300.
(19) Evergreening could delay generic competition for up to 20 years, the report found.
(20) While, for many, work might become redundant, its value and the virtues it can cultivate are evergreen.