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al, as lacquered wood, iron, bronze, or ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.

se, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.

species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation. [Written also labdanum.]

ndula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.] Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes Shak.

gon Shoenanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery. -- Lemon sole (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca). -- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid,…

An organic acid, C14H24O3 obtained from Iceland moss. (b) An old name of fumaric acid.

from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.

ed by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.

minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]

, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus. -- Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under Fumitory. -- Mountain goat. (Zoöl.) See Mazama. -- Mountain green. (Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See Green earth, under Green, a. -- Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub (Nemopa…

To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.

One who sells unguents or perfumery. [Obs.] Jonhson.

considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.

A perfume distilled from orange flowers.

ant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.