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Webster 1913 Edition

Murrhine

Mur′rhine

,
Adj.
[L.
murrhinus
, fr.
murrha
: cf. F.
murrhin
.]
Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; – applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups;
as,
murrhine
vases, cups, vessels
.
Murrhine glass
,
glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

Webster 1828 Edition

Murrhine

MUR'RHINE

,
Adj.
[L. murrhinus.] An epithet given to a delicate kind of ware or porcelain brought from the east; Pliny says from Carmania, now Kerman, in Persia.

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