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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See spikenard.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plant: same as spikenard. See Nardostachys.
  2. n. An aromatic unguent prepared from this plant.
  3. n. Same as mat-grass, 2. See also Nardus.
  4. n. A European plant, Valeriana Celtica, formerly used in medicine; also, one of other species of valerian.
  5. To anoint with nard.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, flatulence, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.
  2. n. A fragrant oil formerly much prized from the plant.
  3. n. American 1980s slang word for testicles, equivalent to balls or nuts. Example: The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.
  2. n. An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.
  3. n. (Bot.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an aromatic ointment used in antiquity

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English narde, from Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), ultimately from Sanskrit नरद (nárada, "Indian spikenard"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English narde, from Old French, from Latin nardus, from Greek nardos, probably ultimately from Sanskrit naladam, Indian spikenard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. ointment
  1. emollient
  1. cream

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. olibanum
  2. bdellium
  3. vetiver
  4. camphor-wood
  1. echinacea
  2. patchouli
  3. spikenard
  4. castoreum
  1. south-wind
  2. civet
  3. trilia
  4. benjamin
  1. bergamot
  2. galbanum
  3. ylang
  4. frankincense
  1. tagara
  2. cummin
  3. Coreopsis
  4. attar
  1. otto
  2. spicery
  3. ambrosia
  4. cassia

rhymes (43)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bernard
  2. Brossard
  3. Chard
  4. Gerard
  5. Gillard
  6. Girard
  7. Godard
  8. Picard
  1. Yard
  2. ard
  3. avant-garde
  4. bard
  5. barred
  6. belgard
  7. bernard
  8. billard
  1. bombard
  2. byard
  3. canard
  4. card
  5. chard
  6. charred
  7. disbarred
  8. discard
  1. disregard
  2. gabbard
  3. gard
  4. guard
  5. hard
  6. jarred
  7. lard
  8. lazard
  1. marred
  2. parde
  3. regard
  4. renard
  5. retard
  6. scarred
  7. shard
  8. sparred
  1. starred
  2. tarred
  3. yard

reverse dictionary (7)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pistic
  1. nardine
  1. mat-grass
  1. nard
  1. pentamyron
  1. spikenard
  1. musk root

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  • sionnach No troops of saucy home-bred slaves await us

    Obviously, Georgie had never been to Spokane! Sep 24, 2009

  • chained_bear This reminded me, instantly and unbidden, of Pinky and the Brain. Narf! Sep 23, 2009

  • bilby
    Eheu! we lack all Persian apparatus—
    The wine, the nard, the rose’s tardy bloom;
    No troops of saucy home-bred slaves await us,
    Nor polished silver in the fire-lit room;
    And as for lyres and lutes of sound convention,
    The H. C. L. forbids their very mention.
    - George Meason Whicher, 'For the Eighth of December'.
    Sep 23, 2009

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