Definition of nard

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Nard (n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia..

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Volador :: Volador (n.) The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.
Bernardine :: Bernardine (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks..
Rotchet :: Rotchet (n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Nard :: Nard (n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia..
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..
Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India..
Bernardine :: Bernardine (n.) A Cistercian monk.
Gaverick :: Gaverick (n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).
Oswego Tea :: Oswego tea () An American aromatic herb (Monarda didyma), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers..
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Feuillants :: Feuillants (n. pl.) A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France..
Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi..
Sea Cock :: Sea cock () A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini)..
Tubfish :: Tubfish (n.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.
Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.
Reynard :: Reynard (n.) An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.
Kaynard :: Kaynard (n.) A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal.
Renardine :: Renardine (a.) Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned..
Boat :: Boat (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats..
-art :: -art () The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard..
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