Manna

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

II. Manna ·noun A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.

III. Manna ·noun A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

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