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aniseed [ˈænɪˌsiːd] n
(Cookery) (Medicine) the liquorice-flavoured aromatic seeds of the anise plant, used medicinally for expelling intestinal gas and in cookery as a flavouring, esp in cakes and confections Also called anise ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Just a bit of the same old aniseed was what he used. Meditatively I smoke a cigarette and sip a pale greenish liquor smelling strongly of aniseed, which isn't half so interesting as a commonplace whiskey and soda, but which, I am told, has the recommendation of being ten times as wicked. I walked into the doctor's yard this morning, and shot my syringe full of aniseed over the hind wheel. |
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