Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shrub or small tree, Xanthoxylum Americanum, with ash-like leaves, and branches armed with strong prickles.
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Examples
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In addition, the berries of the prickly-ash tree, which have a fragrant flavor and produce a pleasant tingling numbness on the tongue and lips, are used in many different ways.
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Then icefish (shirauo) — tiny, almost translucent fish with buggy little black eyeballs which can be had for only a few weeks in early spring — served in sizzling white-sesame oil with Kalamata-olive paste and sprigs of newly budded prickly-ash leaves (kinome).
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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Then icefish (shirauo) — tiny, almost translucent fish with buggy little black eyeballs which can be had for only a few weeks in early spring — served in sizzling white-sesame oil with Kalamata-olive paste and sprigs of newly budded prickly-ash leaves (kinome).
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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-- In this disease give bitters of rattle-weed root, prickly-ash bark of the root, and prickly-sumack bark of the root an equal quantity of each, digest them in whiskey,
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-- Give bitters composed of a half pound of prickly-ash bark of the root, one-fourth pound of rattle-root, and two ounces of blue-root, digest the whole in one gallon of whiskey -- of this the patient should drink freely three times a day, or what the stomach will bear.
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Persons who are addicted to Cholic should use balm of gilead buds, spikenard-root, prickly-ash bark of the root,
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Then icefish (shirauo) - tiny, almost translucent fish with buggy little black eyeballs which can be had for only a few weeks in early spring-served in sizzling white-sesame oil with Kalamata-olive paste and sprigs of newly budded prickly-ash leaves (kinome).
How Now Brownpau 2009
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