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A kind of punch made of rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
A drug prepared from the roots of the shrub Piper methysticum. Chewing the root releases active alkaloids similar to nutmeg and sweet flag. A small or moderate dose of one ounce of finely ground kava to ten ounces of water, blended with coconut oil, gives two to four people a mild but definite euphoria. Stimulation is felt at the beginning, and a pleasant sedation without loss of mental powers occurs afterward. The high lasts about two or three hours, often ending in sleep. With larger doses kava can be hallucinogenic and a powerful sedative. As an aphrodisiac or sexual enhancer, kava kava makes some people glow with psychic and genital euphoria. There are no hangovers or unpleasant side effects, but the drink is habit forming if used in excess. Kava kava is legal in the U.S.
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Noun. A skilful move in football (soccer) where a player with the ball gets past an opponent by kicking it between their legs.Verb. To complete the action of the noun, nutmeg, above.
Mix of beer, gin, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg
Nutmeg is London Cockney rhyming slang for leg.
The act of a passing footballer playing the ball through the open legs of a rival, making him look immensly stupid. George Best was particularly good at this move. Apparantly, this is another example of 'rhyming slang' i.e. "nutmegs" is used for "legs" since the ball is played between the opposing player's legs. The person who sent that in said his granddad heard this first in a Spurs training session back in the 1960s.
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A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
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One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
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A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
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To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
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The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.
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The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.
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A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril.
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Seasoned with nutmeg.
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The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
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Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
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The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.
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A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.
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