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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spicery \Spi"cer*y\, n. [OF. espicerie F. ['e]picerie.]
1. Spices, in general. --Chaucer.
2. A repository of spices. --Addison.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spicery
n : the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly
flavored [syn: {spiciness}, {spice}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Spicery
Heb. nechoth identified with the Arabic naka'at, the gum
tragacanth, obtained from the astralagus of which there are
about twenty species found in Palestine. The tragacanth of
commerce is obtained from the A. tragacantha. "The gum exudes
plentifully under the heat of the sun on the leaves, thorns, and
exteremity of the twigs."
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