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clove

Dried, unopened flower bud of the clove tree. A member of the myrtle family, the tree is a native of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Cloves are used for flavouring in cookery and confectionery. Oil of cloves, which has tonic qualities and relieves wind, is used in medicine. The aroma of cloves is also shared by the leaves, bark, and fruit of the tree. (Eugenia caryophyllus, family Myrtaceae.)
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"You're a good lad, Jim," he said; "and you're all in a clove hitch, ain't you?
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Bits of surf-harried beach clove the worn granite, or whatever the rocks of Cape Farewell may be composed of, and as I followed the ebbing tide down one of these soft stretches, I saw the thing.
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His hand was on her mouth, but that was needless, for her tongue clove to its roof, and her power of utterance was gone.
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