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GRAINS OF See also:PARADISE, See also:GUINEA GRAINS, or MELEGUETA See also:PEPPER (Ger. Paradieskorner, Fr. graines de Paradis, maniguette) , the seeds of Amomum Melegueta, a See also:reed-like plant of the natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Zingiberaceae. It is a native of tropical western See also:Africa, and of See also:Prince's and St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas's islands in the Gulf of Guinea, is cultivated in other tropical countries, and may with ease be grown in hothouses in temperate climates. The plant has a branched See also:horizontal rhizome; smooth, nearly sessile, narrowly lanceolate-oblong alternate leaves; large, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, See also:pale See also:pink or purplish See also:flowers; and an ovate-oblong See also:fruit, ensheathed in bracts, which is of a See also:scarlet See also:colour when fresh, and reaches under cultivation a length of 5 in. The seeds are contained in the See also:acid pulp of the fruit, are commonly See also:- WEDGE (O. Eng. wecg, a mass of metal, cognate with Dutch wig, wigge, Dan. vaegge, &c.; in Lith. the cognate form outside Teut. is found in wagis, a peg, spigot; there is no connexion with " weigh," " weight," which must be referred to the root wegh, to li
wedge-shaped and bluntly angular, are about 14 lines in See also:diameter and have a glossy dark-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown husk, with a conical See also:light-coloured membranous caruncle at the See also:base and a white See also:kernel. They contain, according to Fluckiger and Hanhury, 0'3% of a faintly yellowish neutral essential oil, having an aromatic, not acrid See also:taste, and a specific gravity at 15.5 C. of o•825, and giving on See also:analysis the See also:formula C20H320, or C10H16+C10H16O; also 5.83 % of an intensely pungent, viscid, brown See also:resin.
Grains of paradise were formerly See also:officinal in See also:British pharmacopoeias, and in the 13th and succeeding centuries were used as a See also:drug and a spice, the See also:wine known as See also:hippocras being flavoured with them and with See also:ginger and See also:cinnamon. In 1629 they were employed among the ingredients of the twenty-four See also:herring pies which were the See also:ancient See also:fee-favour of the See also:city of See also:Norwich, ordained to be carried to See also:court by the See also:lord of the See also:manor of See also:Carleton (See also:Johnston and See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, Chem. of See also:Common See also:Life, p. 355, 1879). Grains of paradise were anciently brought overland from See also:West Africa to the Mediterranean ports of the See also:Barbary states, to be shipped for See also:Italy. They are now exported almost exclusively from the See also:Gold See also:Coast. Grains of paradise are to some extent used illegally to give a fictitious strength to See also:malt liquors, See also:gin and cordials. By 56 Geo. III. c. 58, no See also:brewer or dealer in See also:beer shall have in his See also:possession or use grains of paradise, under a See also:penalty of £200 for each offence; and no druggist shallsell the same to a brewer under a penalty of £500. They are, however, devoid of any injurious physiological See also:action, and are much esteemed as a spice by the natives of Guinea.
See See also:Bentley .and Trimen, Medicinal See also:Plants, tab. 268; See also:Lanessan, Hist. See also:des Drogues, pp. 456-46o (1878).
End of Article: GRAINS OF PARADISE, GUINEA GRAINS, or MELEGUETA PEPPER (Ger. Paradieskorner, Fr. graines de Paradis, maniguette)
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