What is the meaning of BALSAM. Phrases containing BALSAM
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Balsam is old slang for money.
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Alt. of Balsamical
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Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
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Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).
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The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense).
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An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.
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Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
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The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
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Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
v. t.
To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.
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A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.
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Producing balsam.
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Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.
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A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam.
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The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
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A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium.
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The act of imparting balsamic properties.
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A species of tree (Abies balsamea).
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Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.
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A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.
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