To prepare with a condiment or seasoning, especially of something aromatic or piquant; season or temper with a spice or spices: as, highly spiced food; to spice wine.
To vary or diversify, as speech, with words or matter of a different kind or tenor; interlard; make spicy, piquant, or entertaining; as, to spice one's talk with oaths, quips, or scandal; to spice a sermon with anecdotes.
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A small stick.
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Kind; sort; variety; species.
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Kind of thing; anything of the kind or class before indicated; such sort: used demonstratively or indefinitely.
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An exemplification of the kind of thing mentioned; specimen; sample; instance; piece.
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A characteristic touch or taste; a modicum, smack, or flavoring, as of something piquant or exciting to the mind: as, a spice of roguery or of adventure.
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A substance aromatic or pungent to the taste, or to both taste and smell; a drug; a savory or piquant condiment or eatable; a relish.
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Now, specifically One of a class of aromatic vegetable condiments used for the seasoning of food, commonly in a pulverized state, as pepper, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves; collectively, such substances as a class: as, the trade in spices or spice.
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A piquant odor or odorous substance, especially of vegetable origin; a spicy smell.
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Figuratively, a piquant concomitant; an engaging accompaniment or incident; an attractive or enjoyable variation.
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Synonyms Relish, savor, dash.