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valerian
Part of speech: NounA drug with a strong, peculiar odor, obtained from the root of a plant, and used as a mild stimulant or tonic; the plant, or its root, from which this drug is obtained; any one of several other species of this plant.
Usage examples "valerian":- You are Manuel- mule driver for Don Valerian Miranda?" - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.
- His friends and admirers claimed for Paul the honour of being the first Christian hermit, and they maintained their improbable opinion by asserting that he had been a monk for ninety- seven years, and that he had retired to the desert at the age of sixteen, when the Church was persecuted in the reign of Valerian. - "History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)", S. Rappoport.
- Around the upper part of the interior are a much injured series of frescoes, comprising- the life of Christ from the Annunciation to the descent into Hades,- and the life of St. Cecilia and her husband Valerian, ending in the burial of Cecilia by Pope Urban in the Catacombs of Calixtus, and the story of the martyred Urban I. In the picture of the Crucifixion, the thieves have their names, " Calpurnius and Longinus." - "Walks in Rome", Augustus J.C. Hare.