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Ambrosia

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

2. An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

3. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

4. Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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