savin
noun
a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
savine
-
a variation of
savin.
Example Sentences
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The first Christmas Mrs. Bates and Kate made a Christmas tree from a small savine in the dooryard that stood where Kate wanted to set a flowering shrub she had found in the woods.
From A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
Take two scruples each of sacopenium, mugwort, savine, cloves, nutmeg, bay berries; one drachm of galbanum; one scruple each of hiera piera and black hellebore, and make a pessary with turpentine.
On the most barren parts of these hills, there springs a tree which the Indians call guisachel; it resembles the savine, and produces a berry of which ink is made.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
Make an infusion of hyssop, bay leaves, bay berries, calamint, camomiles, mugwort and savine.
Take savine, round birthwort, trochisks of myrrh, castor, cinnamon and saffron, each half a drachm; make a powder, give a drachm.
