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genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree. -- Incense wood, the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.

exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James.

censures. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many similar medicines. James Gregory.

and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield. [Scotland] Jamieson.

n joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering. -- Inside track, the inner part of a race c…

To radiate, shed, or diffuse. A splendid fairradiating hospitality. H. James.

Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.

A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. Macaulay.

English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs. [Scot.] Jamieson.

rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.

of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army. [Written also jemadar, jamadar.]

. See Jamestown weed. [Local, U.S.]

ng, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

lgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. Jamieson.

See Kilt, n. Jamieson.

nkind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." Chaucer. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson.

as distinguished from other reformed churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] Jamieson. Halliwell.

To tickle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [Written also kittel.] Halliwell. Jamieson.