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The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
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A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
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The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
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A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin.
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Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed.
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Of or pertaining to the gums.
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The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
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A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).
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A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]
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A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.
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A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.
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The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.
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The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
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To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
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Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
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One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.
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Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage; as, mucilaginous gums or plants.
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Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.
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A hard tumor developed from the gums.
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