| 单词 | lignum |
| 例句 | The stone knocked Merlyn’s hat off as clean as a whistle, and the old gentleman chased him featly down the stairs, waving his wand of lignum vitae. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his book with a bang, leaped to his feet, seized his wand of lignum vitae, and rushed at Arthur as if he were trying to shoo away a stray chicken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There he crouched and reached inside the sleeve of his coat for the short, heavy stick of lignum vitae he carried along his left forearm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z From LA to Edinburgh Macdonald made at least one other sculpture of Parker, a full-length figure carved from lignum vitae, a dark hardwood. Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z The scents are created using native flowers — such as hibiscus, lignum vitae, elderflower — from St. Martin, Aruba, St. Thomas and other islands. So, you want to avoid holiday commercialism? These gifts give back to those in need 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z They were of elm, with lignum vit� roller sheaves, and were bound inside with iron, and had swivel eyes. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z The working surfaces of a feathering wheel are of brass, and the bushes of the paddle arms of lignum vitæ. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Logwood, from which a valuable dye is obtained, is the name of another valuable tree found in the forests of Central America, as also is the lignum vitæ, or wood of life. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z Many hard woods, as lignum vitae, are so heavy that they will not float at all. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z It was lignum vit� wood, extremely hard; and Lord Robert eyed Philip's saw, which just then would have been of great service to him, but he disdained to ask the loan of it. The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. 2011-01-06T03:00:54.123Z He introduced the use of radix chinae, a kind of smilax related to sarsaparilla, and put lignum guiaci into the pharmacology of the day. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time It consists of strips of lignum vitæ dovetailed into the bearing or bush, and running lengthways of it. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z From both logwood and lignum vitæ are extracted medicines which physicians often use. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z The difference in color between them is very marked in some woods, as in lignum vitae and black walnut, and very slight in others, 18 as spruce and bass. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Still others are lignum vitae, ebony, rosewood, mahogany, cedar, lancewood and many other species. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future The balls, which are made of some very hard wood, usually lignum vitae, may be of any size not exceeding 27 in. in circumference and 16� ℔ in weight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" To avoid this damage as much as possible, a broad-face hammer should be employed—a copper, lead, lignum vitæ, or a raw hide hammer being preferable, and the last the best. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Among the woods were the mahoganies, the iron-wood, the ebony, the lignum vit�, the cedar, and many others, of names unfamiliar to me, which admit of the most exquisite polish. To Cuba and Back Hence findere lignum means to cleave a log of wood, with the assistance of nature herself, lengthways; scindere, to chop it by mere force breadthways. Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes We passed Up Park Camp and the cantonments of the West India regiments, and then through a 'scrub' of dwarf acacia and blue flowered lignum vitae. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The jack is a wheel of lignum vitæ, or other hard wood, nine inches in diameter, and three or four inches thick. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The bit of lignum vit� which served him for a heart was all in all for her. Eden An Episode It has also marble, and other kinds of stone; and the hard woods, as mahogany, cedar, ebony, iron-wood, lignum vit�, &c., are in abundance. To Cuba and Back There are many varieties of cabinet and dye woods, including mahogany, ebony, lignum vit�, cedar and logwood. Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... The defect in that kind of table was called "lignum," which denoted a dull, log colour, with stains and flaws and an indistinctly patterned grain. Intarsia and Marquetry A smart half-breed offered canes of ebony, lignum vitæ, lance, and orange wood, all of native growth. Due South or Cuba Past and Present For the most part it was heavily wooded with mahogany and lignum vitae: toward the central portion there was open land, but there was not the least sign of any construction work. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 They eat into the heart of the hardest woods; not even the lignum vit�, or iron-wood, or cedar, being proof against them. To Cuba and Back Compound in a marble mortar, a large quantity of lignum rhodium, and anise, with a little powder of dried orange peel, and gum benzoin. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The lignum crucis, pieces of the cross on which the Saviour suffered, are profusely distributed not only in the churches, but in the private houses of many persons. Roman Catholicism in Spain The poor emus had got down into the creek amongst the lignum bushes for a little shade . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Andros Island and the Abaco Islands may be specially noted for their profusion of large timber, including mahogany, mastic, lignum vitae, iron and bullet woods, and many others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" It is told of him that when he was travelling on the coach between Charters Towers and Hughenden, he stayed one night at a stage which was a lignum hut, rather small in size. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Some of the hard dark woods, cocoa wood and lignum vit�, or dark horn are adapted for this purpose. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. True it is, that here grows some small quantity of lignum sanctum, or guaiacum, of whose use we say something in another place. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass, let into the lignum vitæ sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, thereby preventing the sheave from wearing, without adding much to its weight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The cooking apparatus was a boat's stove, eighteen inches long, and nine inches broad, in which lignum vitæ was used as fuel. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 I have somewhere in this narrative alluded to lignum, and it may not be out of place at this juncture to describe what it is. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Of the trees which have a wide range over the country, especially near the sea-coast, the lignum vitae is of great value. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Sam had picked on a great lignum vitæ as the forked tree named in the chart and had come to disappointment, even as I had. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure English, he says in another place, cannot without the use of additional words reproduce the difference between synonymous terms like animal and homo; genus, sexus, and species; objectum and subjectum; arbor and lignum. Early Theories of Translation One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Ebony and lignum vitae abound; Dr. Livingstone used hardly any other fuel when he navigated the Pioneer, and no wood was found to make such "good steam." The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 This method is exceedingly convenient and economical for scenting small batches, involving merely mechanical labor, the tools required being simply an ordinary carpenter's plane, and a good marble mortar, and lignum vitæ pestle. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants It is easy to remember that lignum vitae is one of the hardest woods and arbor vitae one of the softest. Outdoor Sports and Games But the religious, arming himself with the sign of the cross, and reciting the antiphon, Ecce lignum crucis, managed to gather some of the ripe fruit, which the tree offered. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Into this cylinder a piston, pointed with ivory or lignum vitæ wood, works up and down from a spring worked by a lever. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise Each pan is supported on a carriage having iron axles, with lignum vitæ wheels, like those of a railway carriage, and they run on rails. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Rhodium.—When rose-wood, the lignum of the Convolvulus scoparius, is distilled, a sweet-smelling oil is procured, resembling in some slight degree the fragrance of the rose, and hence its name. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants The other kind has white wood with a small brown heart, but nearly as hard as lignum vitae. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 The mountain slopes are covered with valuable timbers, cabinet and dye-woods, including mahogany, walnut, lignum vitae, ebony, and logwood, and various medicinal plants. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Some of the trees resembled mastic, and others lignum aloes, some like palms with smooth green stems, and many other kinds. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time I laid the precious stratum, super stratum upon the two former, and other deposits of papyrus and lignum; such was my "coal formation." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 If we hadn't found the track yesterday we might have lain and rotted in that lignum, and no one been any the wiser—or sorrier—who knows? While the Billy Boils Out in the lignum swamps once more frogs croak and crickets sing. The Old Bush Songs The night was a succession of violent tornadoes, and during one of the most outrageous the upper half of a "triste lignum," falling alongside of and grazing my hammock, awoke me with its crash. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 May 16.—Felled a tree of the acacia pendula, the wood extremely hard and beautiful; a black resinous juice exuded from the heart, which much resembled the black part of the lignum vitae. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales And there are dye woods, mahogany and lignum vitae. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom These trees were for the most part intensely hard wood, a species of lignum vitae, called by the Arabs "babanoose," and were quite proof against our axes. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile When a certain class of bushman says 'mallee', he means any sort of scrub except lignum; and when he says 'mulga', he means any tree except pine or currajong. Such Is Life It presently disappeared and I should not be surprised if it were still lying, an unknown and inutile lignum in some Cairene mosque. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 Though botanically different, they are extremely alike; the black wood as grown in some districts is superior, and the lignum vitæ inferior in quality, to these timbers brought from other countries. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 This species of wood is exceedingly inflammable, and burns like a torch; it is intensely hard, and in colour and grain it is similar to lignum vitae. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs Thou sheen of flowers through clover place, Thou lignum aloe's blooming face, Thou sea of grace, Where man seeks blessed landing. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Irregular areas of lignum, hundreds of acres in extent, and eight or ten feet in height, representing swamps; and long, serpentine reaches of the same, but higher in growth, indicating billabongs of the river. Such Is Life For it was Bob himself who had just ridden round a contiguous cape of lignum, and now, dismounting and throwing his reins on the ground, joined our unappreciative group. Such Is Life The chaps had hung their tucker-bags on some adjacent lignum, out of reach of the wild pigs, but at a height accessible to Pup. Such Is Life Any island or peninsula of plain among the tall lignum would do for a camp; and there was a good waterhole about a mile away, with only a low, slack fence to cross. Such Is Life Thompson turned his horse, and disappeared round a promontory of lignum. Such Is Life And with this address, which I give in bowdlerised form, the young fellow turned his horse, and disappeared through a belt of lignum. Such Is Life Tom knew of an island among the lignum, where the bullocks would be safe; and he would put them there in the morning, after he had visited Alf. Such Is Life Horses supposed to be lost in the lignum on Yoongoolee, and him hunting them for all he's worth. Such Is Life The bullock-bells were ringing among the lignum, as the animals exerted themselves to make up for lost time. Such Is Life Who is he whose grief bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow makes the very lignum quiver in sympathy? Such Is Life At last I heard across the lignum the jangle of a brass bell, and the 'plock, plock' of an iron frog, and presently my quarry appeared in sight a couple of hundred yards ahead. Such Is Life |
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