Meanings
- pluralplural of aloe
- pluralplural onlyThe resin of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for its fragrant odour.
- The wood of the agalloch.
A closid gardin, my sister spouse ; a closid gardyn, a welle selid. Thin outsendingus paradis of poungarnetes, with the frutis of appilis, of cipre tre, with narde ; and narde, and safrun, fistula, and canel, with alle the trees of Liban, myrre, and aloes, with alle the firste oynemens.
My sister spousess, a garden closed (al)together; a garden closed (al)together, a well asealed. Thy sendings-out be (a) paradise of (the) apples of Punic, with the fruits of apples, cypress trees, with nard; nard and saffron, an herb called fistula, and canel, with all [the] trees of the Lebanon, myrrh, and aloes, with all the best, either (the) first, ointments.
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Song of Solomon IV:12-14, page 78, column 1
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