Meaning of lign-aloes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. agalloch, aloes
2. agarwood, trees of the genus Aquilaria, especially the species Aquilaria malaccensis

Examples

“c. 1380 "Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Book IV, line 1135ff. The woful teeris that they leten falle As bittre weren out of teris kynde, ffor peyne, as is ligne aloes or galle:”

“As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of Lign-Aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as Cedar trees beside the waters.”

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