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Tamarisk

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from a Hebrew word meaning to cleanse, so called from its abstersive qualities. The Romans wreathed the brows of criminals with tamarisk. The Arabs make cakes called manna of the hardened juice extracted from this tree.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Tall Men
Talleyrand
Tally (A)
Tally
Tally-ho!
Tallyman (A)
Talmud (The)
Talpot or Talipot Tree
Talus
Tam-o-Shanter’s Mare
Tamarisk
Tame Cat (A)
Tamerlane
Taming of the Shrew
Tammany (St.)
Tammany Ring
Tammuz
Tancred (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Tandem
Tandem D.O.M
Tangie