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noun

Spikenard n.

(Bot.) 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.

A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spikenard" Quotes from Famous Books

... to own, than he had once hoped to have ready by that point in his manhood; but it might at least correct the impression of him common among those who knew him only as a prose pamphleteer. Something green round his brow for the present, were it only the sweet field-spikenard, would attest that he had given his youth to Poesy, and would re-announce, amid the clamour of evil tongues which his polemical writings had raised, that he meant to return to Poesy before all was done, and to die, when he did die, ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... you are young, if you are beautiful, if you have a home, a family, if in your heart you have the precious ointment, the spikenard, to pour out, as did Magdalene on the feet of Jesus, let yourself be won by a man worthy of you; become what every pure young girl should be,—a good woman, the virtuous mother of a family. A poet is the ...

— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac

Words linked to "Spikenard" : ointment, emollient, nard