Forms: 5–7 lentiske, 7 lentick(e, 7, 9 lentisc, 8 lentisck, 7– lentisk. Also 7 in It. or Sp. form lentisco. [ad. L. lentisc-us. Cf. F. lentisque.] The mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). Also attrib.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., II. 429. Lentiskis greynes fele and ripe a slepe Thou brynge a day and nyght to hete yfere.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 29. The rosine of ye lentiske tree called mastick deserueth … prayse.

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1616.  B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, IV. i. Oyles of Lentisco.

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1624.  Capt. Smith, Virginia, I. 2. The Lentisk that beareth Mastick.

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1625–6.  Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1277. The Lenticke tree … is well nigh onely proper to Sio.

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1644.  Evelyn, Diary, 30 Sept. Rosemary, lavender, lentiscs, and the like sweet shrubes.

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1694.  Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lxiii. (1737), 257. Gymnast was making Tooth-pickers with Lentisk.

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1751.  Sir J. Hill, Mat. Med., 694. The Lentisc Wood, distill’d by the Retort, yields an acrid Phlegm in considerable Quantity.

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1766.  Fawkes, trans. Theocritus Idyl, vii. 154. Who courteous bad us on soft beds recline Of lentisk, and young branches of the vine.

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1840.  Browning, Sordello, IV. 390. Where I set her Moorish lentisk, by the stair, To overawe the aloes.

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1866.  [J. A. Symonds], in Cornh. Mag., Nov., 540. Lentisk and beach-loving myrtle, both exceeding green and bushy.

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1894.  P. Pinkerton, Adriatica, Dream, By the lentisks of Taòrmina.

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