2. Verb. (third-person singular of nutmeg) ¹
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Definition of Nutmegs
1. nutmeg [n] - See also: nutmeg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutmegs
Literary usage of Nutmegs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"My precious nutmegs doe not wound, For fear I should not live. ... I leave the
honorable gentleman from Massachusetts to his WOODEN nutmegs and silver ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"To prepare the nutmegs for ose, the deed enclosing the kernel is dried at a gentle
heat in a drying-house over a smouldering fire for about two months, ..."
3. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"The various cases of poisoning with nutmegs seem to depend only on the ingestion
... Concerning a peculiar toxicity of the " wild " nutmegs and mace which ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"The average product is about 5 Ibs. of nutmegs and 1J Ib. of mace to each tree.
... The nutmegs are placed upon gratings over a slow fire, and dried at a ..."
5. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"nutmegs were at one time a most important branch of industry, ... Their cultivation
has, however, now been resumed, and Penang nutmegs stand high in the ..."
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