spicery (spiseri)

[ Ne how the fyr was couched first with stree [straw],... And thanne with greene woode and spicerie. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 2077. And eke the fayrest Alma mett him there, With bal me, and wine, and costly spicery , To comfort him in his infirmity. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 49. 21. A spicy substance; something used as a spice. For (ahlas my goode Lorde), were not the cordial of these two pretious Spiceries , the corrosyue of care would quicke ly confounde me. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), Ep. Ded., p. 43. 3. A repository of spices; a grocery or buttery; a store of kitchen supplies in general. Furst speke with the pantere or officere of the spicery, For frutes a-fore mete to ete them fastyngely. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 162. He had in the hall-kitchen a clerk of his spicery. G. Cavendish, Cardinal Wolsey, I. 34. 4. A spicy quality or effect; an aromatic effluence; spicine . My taste by her sweet lips drawn with delight, My smelling won with her breath's spicery . Drayton, Idea, xxix., To the Senses. The affluence of his [Emerson's] illustrations diffuses a flavor of oriental spicery over his pages. G. Ripley, in Frothing ham, p. 266.