Agura) gave rise to many corruptions as lignum aloes, the Portuguese Páo d' Aguila etc.
It presently disappeared and I should not be surprised if it were still lying, an unknown and inutile lignum in some Cairene mosque.
Fagonia cretica is a very pretty plant, with purple flowers very much like those of Clarkia; and Guiacum, the Lignum Vitae, is remarkable for the hardness of its wood and the gum it produces.
What had General Lignum ever done in all his luxurious days to justify him to a place in the sun?
In the last analysis what anyhow was this General Robert Bruce Lignum except a bundle of pampered selfishness, wrapped up in a membrane, inclosed in a frock coat and lidded under a high hat?
Lignum would be having his political ambitions to think about; one beat more or less would mean nothing to Lignum, who had no journalistic instincts or training anyway.
Wasn't Lignum lavishing wads of his easy-come, easy-go money on it now, because of his ambition to be a United States senator?
Lignum never worked for his millions; he inherited them.
When he got that far Mr. Foxman decided he owed Lignum nothing, as compared with what Lignum owed him.
What did Lignum know of the toil and the sweat and the gifts spent by men, whose names to him were merely items in a pay roll, to make The Clarion a power in the community and in the country?
Already he had begun to think of that gentleman as Old Lignum instead of as General Lignum, so fast were his mental aspects and attitudes altering.
Where have you been all your born days, not to know what lignum vitae is?
Old Lignum Janua"--the Tom Woodgate mentioned at the end of the letter, a boatman at Hastings.
English me that, and challenge old Lignum Janua to make a better.
A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass, let into the lignum vitæ sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, thereby preventing the sheave from wearing, without adding much to its weight.
The cooking apparatus was a boat's stove, eighteen inches long, and nine inches broad, in which lignum vitæ was used as fuel.
Next come some simple five-syllable lines, with a catching rhyme: "Lignum amaras Indulcat aquas Eis immissum.
I can find the way now, anyhow as far as Lignum Vitae Key, and if the tide doesn't bother me too much in the cut, maybe to Hammer Point.
Soon the water became deeper, the waves ceased breaking and subsided, and the Irene sailed smoothly on till she was hauled up in the wind to enter the cut in the bank near Lignum Vitae Key, through which an adverse tide was pouring.
Because really and truly, George, what I said and meant to say was that I trusted Lignum to you and was sure you'd bring him through it.
As they go down the little street and the Bagnets pause for a minute looking after them, Mrs. Bagnet remarks to the worthy Lignum that Mr. Bucket "almost clings to George like, and seems to be really fond of him.
I trust my old Lignumto you, and I am sure you'll bring him through it.
The trooper returns that this is kindly said and that he WILL bring Lignum through it somehow.
The gentlemen of the juries might not understand him asLignum and me do.
The difference in color between them is very marked in some woods, as in lignum vitae and black walnut, and very slight in others, as spruce and bass.
Many hard woods, as lignum vitae, are so heavy that they will not float at all.
The terms coarse grain and fine grain are also frequently used to distinguish such ring-porous woods as have large prominent pores, like chestnut and ash, from those having small or no pores, as cherry and lignum vitae.
When large quantities of shells are to be spun, all alike, the form is sometimes made of lignum vitæ.
Sectional Chucks made from Wood] A lignum vitæ chuck is shown at A in Fig.
The lignum crucis, pieces of the cross on which the Saviour suffered, are profusely distributed not only in the churches, but in the private houses of many persons.
Lignum aloes is the wood of the Aquilaria agallocha, and is chiefly known as sinking incense.
The bowl used for playing this game is of the shape of a cheese, and is usually made of lignum vitae, as being very heavy and hard wood.
Some of the very best tops are made of lignum vitae, with long, handsome pegs.
They were named Islands de la Magdalena, by Diego de Mendoza in 1532, and are occasionally visited by the Spaniards from Saint Blas, for the flax and lignum vitæ they produce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lignum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
