Crossword-Solution: ORRIS 5 letters, 100 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The faint odour of orris-root that floated forth as I let down the flap, seemed to identify itself with the yellows and browns of the old wood, till hue and scent were of one quality and interchangeable.

But I'm sick of smelling Cossack, Take me inside and let me put my head into a stack Of orris-root and musk." Within the shop, the light is dimmed to a pearl-and-green dusk Out of which dreamily sparkle counters and shelves of glass, Containing phials, and bowls, and jars, and dishes; a mass Of aqueous transparence made solid by threads of gold.

Then set it on the fire, and when the froth comes on the toppe of it, skimme it cleane; then crack eight or ten hen-egges and putt in the liquor to cleare it: two or three handfulls of sweet bryar, and so much of muscovie, and sweet marjoram the like quantity; some doe put sweet cis, or if you please put in a little of orris root.

She has a little fragrance about her, not like flowers, but old laces, perhaps, that have been a long time in a drawer with orris and face-powder and things.

And--it is too dreadful to tell, but--I had dropped my handkerchief, and he gave me his, about three square yards of finest cambric,--I shall never smell orris again without thinking of that moment,--and said--you won't think me vain to repeat this, Hildegarde?--said that he could not have his best pupil spoil her eyes, as it would interfere with her Greek.