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To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.

The act of imparting balsamic properties.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.

A hood of other material than mail; esp. (Eccl.), a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

tely; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera. -- Panoramic, or Pantascopic, camera, a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in…

ite crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

una, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

See Cinnamic.

lorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]

To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding bei…

A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

tree of Guiana. Coumaric acid (Chem.), one of a series of aromatic acids, related to cinnamic acid, the most important of which is a white crystalline substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artifically.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

Terminal. Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function. Fitzed. Hall.

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. Kersey.

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. Whewell.