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The fruit of the almond tree.

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

See Almandine

The vegetable casein of almonds.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

An almond.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds.

Of or pertaining to almonds; derived from amygdalin; as, amygdalic acid.

Almond-bearing.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

Almond-shaped.

matic compound (Chem.), one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc., many of which have an aromatic odor. They include many of the most important of the carbon compounds and may all be derived from the benzene group, C6H6. The term…

omatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde, oil of bitter almonds; the aldehyde, C6H5.CHO, intermediate in composition between benzoic or benzyl alcohol, and benzoic acid. It is a thin colorless liquid.

A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [Formerly written also benzule.]

To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

s) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. -- Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum (C. cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherr…