Allspice :: Allspice (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..

Apices :: Apices (pl. ) of Ape.

Apices :: Apices (n. pl.) See Apex.

Aruspice :: Aruspice (n.) A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.

Aruspices :: Aruspices (pl. ) of Aruspe.

Auspice :: Auspice (a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future..

Auspice :: Auspice (a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.

Auspices :: Auspices (pl. ) of Auspic.

Bespice :: Bespice (v. t.) To season with spice, or with some spicy drug..

Coppice :: Coppice (n.) A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

Epicede :: Epicede (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

Epicedial :: Epicedial (a.) Elegiac; funereal.

Epicedian :: Epicedian (a.) Epicedial.

Epicedian :: Epicedian (n.) An epicede.

Epicedium :: Epicedium (n.) An epicede.

Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites..

Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

Epicentral :: Epicentral (a.) Arising from the centrum of a vertebra.

Epicerastic :: Epicerastic (a.) Lenient; assuaging.

Haruspice :: Haruspice (n.) A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

Hospice :: Hospice (n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard..

Pice :: Pice (n.) A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent..

Picea :: Picea (n.) A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs..

Picene :: Picene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.

Piceous :: Piceous (a.) Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

Precipice :: Precipice (n.) A sudden or headlong fall.

Precipice :: Precipice (n.) A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff..

Propice :: Propice (a.) Fit; propitious.

Spice :: Spice (n.) Species; kind.

Spice :: Spice (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..

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