(n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.
(n.) Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.
(v. t.) To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit.
(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.
(v. t.) To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spices are widely used for flavouring food and are mostly grown in the tropics.
(2) Patients with duodenal ulcer were more often native from the Magreb and their nutrition was more often rich in spices in comparison to patients with gastric ulcer.
(3) A strong EBV activation activity was observed in aqueous extracts of some Cantonese salted dried fish from China, harissa (a spice mixture) and to a lesser extent qaddid (dry mutton preserved in olive oil) from Tunisia.
(4) The overall population may be exposed to TCE through household cleaning fluids, decaffeinated coffee, and some spice extracts.
(5) I mean, we all taught each other stuff, but she taught us all .” Was that her main role in the Spice Girls?
(6) However, almost anything can be used to blush water into wine: fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, teabags – whatever you think might taste good.
(7) Almond lamb curry: Atul Kochhar This dish derives its main flavour from a spice blend called vadagam, which can be a little tedious to make.
(8) In Group I (n = 32) a statistically significantly higher % of patients (47%) showed positive reactions to 1 or more spices, compared with 15% in Group II (N = 71).
(9) In our experience the occurrence of urticaria, angioedema or anaphylaxis after meals in Chinese or Indonesian restaurants is more often due to IgE-mediated Type I food allergy, caused by consumption of shrimp, peanut or spices, in particular those of the parsley family (e.g.
(10) The design tool taken into account is the world-wide used electrical simulator SPICE.
(11) Matthew Watson, a scientist at Bristol University and the principal investigator of Spice, told Nature magazine that two scientists involved in the project had not been initially forthcoming that they had submitted patents for technology similar to that used in the project before Spice was proposed.
(12) Manchester United 2-2 Liverpool: the Class of 92, Spice Boys and Cantona’s return Read more He did not do it all by himself – there was considerable assistance from Eric Harrison and other United youth coaches along the way and even a short loan spell at Preston North End played its part – but from the moment Beckham became a first-team regular he appeared fully armed and fully formed.
(13) The only significant association (p less than .01, odds ratio = 15) was found between an attack of cholera and eating laebmoo--an uncooked pork preparation with Thai spices and chili.
(14) An experiment explored how well young, middle-aged, and elderly subjects could discriminate the presence or absence of the spice marjoram in a soup prepared according to a published recipe.
(15) Among the spices, the highest numbers of reactions were found to nutmeg (28%), paprika (19%) and cloves (12%) in the indicator-positive Group I. Fragrance-mix turned out to be a particularly important indicator allergen, especially for paprika, nutmeg and cloves.
(16) I remember standing by the side of the stage, thinking, "I'm about to follow the Spice Girls" and giggling to myself.
(17) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
(18) The foods were cream, homogenized milk, raw milk, cheese, raw chicken, raw oysters, frozen broccoli, flour, and spices.
(19) One is for loin of pork spiced with green peppercorns.
(20) Add the cashew mixture, spices, salt and tomato puree and stir for 2-3 minutes until thoroughly combined.
Swig
Definition:
(v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
(v. t.) To suck.
(n.) A long draught.
(n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
(n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
(v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
(v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A paramedic taking a swig from the Coke bottle in his glove compartment that's half vodka."
(2) Just when you’re wondering if the real Nigel Farage will stand up, he ends the ad by swigging from a good old pint of ale.
(3) One man took turns swigging from what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne in each hand, shouting “no justice, no peace” to no one in particular.
(4) Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture.
(5) And in case you wondered where she stood on this final, most pathetic failure of New York's imperious chief executive, on Monday night across from Piers Morgan, Quinn took a massive swig from a 32oz soft drink.
(6) When two men dressed entirely in tin foil with silver bobbles on their heads walked into the village swigging beer, TV reporters immediately surrounded them.
(7) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
(8) Nadal trots to his chair for a quick swig of an energy drink.
(9) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
(10) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
(11) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
(12) People swigged beer, marijuana spiced the air, hip-hop streamed from a sound system.
(13) Swigging his brown bitter while Morrissey sipped his orange juice, he tried to find out whether this Smiths person liked Special K, Prefab Sprout or the Beatles.
(14) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
(15) Ahrendts, who is married to her childhood sweetheart and has three children, rises at 5am and swigs Diet Coke.
(16) Remember the rise of the 90s “ladette”, personified in 1999 by the then Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Zoë Ball swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the morning of her wedding to Norman Cook?
(17) In my view, people are searching for a different coffee experience, and that’s what artisan coffee is.” When Extract started roasting coffee beans in a shed in 2007, there were no hordes of bearded, craft beer swigging hipsters banging down the door for their daily caffeine hit.
(18) The two leaders, along with Merkel’s chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer, then sat down with locals for a specially brewed G7 summit banana and clove-flavour weissbier, weisswurst and pretzels, all of them appearing to swig back the beer, despite the early hour.
(19) A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.
(20) One quick swig from the magic bottle later and he's okay.