Prickly Ash - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: prickly ashPrickly ash
A prickly shrub Xanthoxylum Americanum with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves also called toothache tree All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic The southern species is Xanthoxylum Carolinianum...
Satinwood
The hard lemon colored fragrant wood of an East Indian tree Chloroxylon Swietenia It takes a lustrous finish and is used in cabinetwork The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash Xanthoxylum Caribaeligum growing in Florida and the West Indies...
Prick
That which pricks penetrates or punctures a sharp and slender thing a pointed instrument a goad a spur etc a point a skewer...
Prickly
Full of sharp points or prickles armed or covered with prickles as a prickly shrub...
Pricking for sheriffs
Pricking for sheriffs. See SHERIFFS....
manna ash
A South Mediterranean ash Fraxinus ornus having fragrant white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna...
Glasswort
A seashore plant of the Spinach family Salicornia herbacea with succulent jointed stems also a prickly plant of the same family Salsola Kali both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes which yield soda for making glass and soap...
Timber
Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...
Cineraceous
Like ashes ash colored cinereous...
Cinerary
Pertaining to ashes containing ashes...
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