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Walnut

Nature

Walnut as a plant people have named and used. Hard shell, brain fold, lasting meat — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Walnut is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists walnut (karya) among nut drugs with bark and partition uses. A named walnut in that handbook, not a brain-shape lore dump and not hazel as a refused weaker ID this pass.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Walnut is historically related to Oil.

    In Merrifield's Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting, Walnut is named in the finish and formula lemmas beside Oil.

    from Mary Philadelphia Merrifield · Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting, 1849

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  • Walnut is historically related to Wine.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, compound walnut water steeps green walnuts with radish in white wine for three days before distillation — walnut is steeped in that wine.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Walnut is historically related to Vinegar.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, camp vinegar takes walnut ketchup with garlic, soy, cayenne, and a pint of vinegar left to infuse — walnut ketchup is steeped into that vinegar.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Walnut is historically related to Nutmeg.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, walnut ketchup compounds a hundred walnuts with vinegar, mace, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and pepper.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Walnut is historically related to Ginger.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, Reading sauce bruises ginger with long pepper into walnut pickle liquor, and walnut ketchup compounds ginger among the spices boiled with the nuts.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Quarter is used in Walnut.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a piece of butter the size of a walnut goes into a mode that also quarters apples — the walnut-size butter measure shares that quartered-apple preparation.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Poppy is historically related to Walnut.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, linseed is pressed in the same press in which olive, walnut, or poppy oil is accustomed to be expressed — poppy oil shares that walnut oil press.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Horn is historically related to Walnut.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, horn handles and lantern tablets are polished with ashes in linen, then anointed over with walnut oil — the horn finish takes that walnut oil.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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Roman religion

  • Walnut appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats walnut among nut trees with wood and fruit chapters. A named walnut in that encyclopedia, not hazel as the smaller nut already walked here and not a modern baking dump alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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European folklore

  • Highboy is historically related to Walnut.

    Sheraton’s Dictionary seats the highboy among tall chests on stands of English and American walnut cabinet speech. A named highboy in that trade, not a lowboy as the short companion and not a plain chest of drawers without the tall stand composition.

    from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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  • Lowboy is historically related to Walnut.

    Sheraton’s Dictionary seats the lowboy among short dressing chests and stands of walnut cabinet speech, companion to the tall highboy. A named lowboy in that trade, not a highboy and not a full chest of drawers alone.

    from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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  • Escritoire is historically related to Walnut.

    Sheraton’s Dictionary seats the escritoire among fall-front writing cabinets of walnut and hardwood cabinet speech. A named escritoire in that trade, not a davenport as the small sloping desk, not a bureau plat as the flat writing table, and not a secretary desk as the bookcase-topped form alone.

    from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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  • Davenport desk is historically related to Walnut.

    Sheraton’s Dictionary seats small sloping writing desks of the early nineteenth-century cabinet trade in the walnut neighborhood later named davenport. A named davenport desk in that writing-furniture speech, not an escritoire fall-front cabinet, not a bureau plat, and not a secretary bookcase desk.

    from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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