arrow-root

Definitions

Alternative spelling of arrowroot.

alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In Jane’s eyes she had been a rival; and well might any thing she could offer⟳ of assistance or regard be repulsed. An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have⟳ been the rack, and arrow-root from the Hartfield store-room must have⟳ been poison.”

“Dr. Ifill could state, with certainty, that all the arrow-root imported into this country from Barbadoes, was made from the maranta; […] The difference in the quality of the arrow-roots imported into this country, depended on the care which had been employed in the preparation. The greater number⟳ of times the fecula was washed, the purer it would be.”

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