Cubebs

Word CUBEBS
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What do we mean by cubebs?

The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil.

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The word "cubebs" in example sentences

Cubebi_, or _Cubeba qfficinalia_, a climbing plant of the pepper tribe, native of Prince of Wales 'Island, Java, and the Indian islands furnishes the medicinal cubebs, which is used extensively in arresting discharges from mucous membranes. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

And the Saracens crepe the wood ENONCH-BALSE, and the fruit, the which is as cubebs, they clepe ABEBISSAM, and the liquor that droppeth from the branches they clepe GUYBALSE. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In appearance cubebs resemble black pepper, except that they are higher colored and are each furnished with a stalk two or three lines long. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Dr. Blume says, that the cubebs of the shops are the fruit of _P. caninum_. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

At the same time the first medicines advised are stopped and oleoresin of cubebs, five grains, or copaiba balsam, ten grains -- or both together -- are to be taken three times daily after meals, in capsules, for several weeks, unless they disturb the digestion too much. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

Other miscellaneous products of the East were in great demand for various purposes: camphor and cubebs from Sumatra and Borneo; musk from ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

He had put our railway and steamer tickets on the table, and was holding his cigarette so that Aggie could inhale the fumes, she having hay fever and her cubebs being on their way to Panama. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Lozenges or pastilles containing chloride of ammonium, chlorate of potash, and cubebs may be employed. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

Concan they make a compound pill of the leaf-juice, powdered cubebs and camphor, to be dissolved in the mouth for ulcerated, bleeding or scorbutic gums. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

#Mention frequency and types of eruption resulting from the ingestion of cubebs. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

So he gave it him, and the broker betook himself to a hashish-seller, of whom he bought two ounces of concentrated Turkish opium and equal parts of Chinese cubebs, cinnamon, cloves, cardamoms, white pepper, ginger and mountain lizard [FN#86] and pounding them all together, boiled them in sweet oil; after which he added three ounces of frankincense and ❋ Anonymous (1879)

I used cubebs and glycerine for a long time; they only relieved me while ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

"No doubt of it; they are awful nasty, but I will be a coal-pit too if necessary," Jack said, ready for any emergency; but this was not required of him, and only Grey paid the penalty of the white lie, and smoked cubebs until everything around him grew black except the stars which danced before his eyes, and he was so dizzy he could scarcely stand. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

I shall give him some _cubebs_ to smoke to-morrow. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

"But you will have to smoke _cubebs_," Grey rejoined. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

Its aromatic bitter stimulant properties are like those of cubebs, and depend on a volatile oil, a dark-green resin, and a peculiar bitter principle called _maticin_. ❋ William Saunders (1861)

-- A plant of the pepper family, which furnishes one of the articles known by the Peruvians as Matico, and which is used by them for the same purposes as cubebs; but its chief value is as a styptic, an effect probably produced by its rough under surface, acting mechanically like lint. ❋ William Saunders (1861)

Yet, when you come to wash your pan of dirt, and the lies have all been carried off down the flume, and you've got the color of the few particles of solid, eighteen-carat truth left, you'll find it's the Sultan who's smoking Turkish cigarettes; and that Mabel is trying cubebs for her catarrh; and that the cashier of the Teenth National belongs to a whist club in the suburbs and is the superintendent of a Sunday-school in the city; and that Dan has put Daisy up to visiting her mother to ward off a threatened swoop down from the old lady; and that the Czar hasn't done a blame thing except to become the father of another girl baby. ❋ Lorimer, George H (1903)

"Yes, you like air, _Tisicky_ my old woman says, and she sent me out last night for a pipe and some cubebs which you are to smoke three times ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

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