Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of nutmeg
adjectivenutmegged (not comparable)
- not comparableSeasoned with nutmeg.
Bake a rye-loaf well nutmegged; cut it in pieces and put it in a narrow bag with some hops and some wheat, and put the bag into the cask at the bung-hole.
1814, John Nicholson, The Farmer's Assistant, page 17 - not comparableobsoletemedicineOf the liver, textured like nutmeg as a result of hepatopathy.
Ultimately the liver becomes nutmegged, the spleen and the kidneys indurated, the stomach congested.
1886, Charles Hilton Fagge, “Chronic Bronchitis”, in The Principles and Practice of Medicine, volume 1, page 875
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