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To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

y aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.

om the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

ops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

a box, or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.

ternal genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

ed, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak.

vel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

ty; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] Bacon. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity. Shak. A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity. Evelin.

A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

owing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume." Hare.