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Producing balsam.

The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.

Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam. "A balsamous substance." Sterne.

See Legislature, Switzerland.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.

Fulsome. [Obs.]

An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer. Gossamer spider (Zoöl.), any small or young spider which spins webs by which to sail in the air. See Ballooning spider.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

Ambergris. [Obs.] Milton.

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.

Same as Jasmine.

oods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.

Same as Ligan. Brande & C.

One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.

The old name of the aromatic resinous juice of the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, now commonly called balm of Gilead. See under Balm.

A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.

A species of micaceous sandstone. -- Psam*mit"ic, a.

Salt; salted; saline. [R.]