lign-aloes
(laɪnˈæləʊz)
Also 4–5 ligne aloes, 6–9 lignaloe, 9 (sense c) linaloa, -aloe.
[ad. late L. lignum aloēs ‘wood of the aloe’ (aloēs genitive of aloē).]
a. The bitter drug aloes; = aloe 3. b. Aloes-wood; = aloe 1. c. [= Sp. linaloe.] An aromatic wood obtained from a Mexican tree of the genus Bursera.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1109 (1137) The woful teris..As bittre weren..as is ligne Aloes or galle. 1577 Frampton Joyfull Newes 84 b, Making a Pomander of it, mingled with Muske, Lignaloe, it doeth comfort the braine. 1611 Bible Num. xxiv. 6 The trees of Lign-Aloes which the Lord hath planted. 1721 Bailey, Lign-Aloes, the Wood of Aloes, a Drug of great Price. 1859 Hooker in Man. Sci. Enq. 428 Lign aloe.—The name of a remarkably aromatic wood sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1855 from the department of Vera Cruz in Mexico. 1867 J. Ingelow Story Doom i. 18 Where the dew distilled All night from leaves of old lign aloe trees. 1883 Ogilvie Suppl., Linaloa, A Mexican wood [etc.]. |