Word Finder - balsam

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A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants.

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A plant or tree yielding such substance.

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A soothing ointment.

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Something soothing.

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Classical music is a sweet balsam for our sorrows

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A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens.

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The balsam family of flowering plants (Balsaminaceae), which includes Impatiens and Hydrocera.

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A balsam fir Abies balsamea.

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Canada balsam, a turpentine obtained from the resin of balsam fir.

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To treat or anoint with balsam.

This balsam gives the tree a fragrant odour when the leaves are unfolding.

Microscopic sections of some of the more coherent clays and shales may be prepared by saturating them with Canada balsam by long boiling, and slicing the resultant mass in the same manner as one of the harder rocks.

For those who like variety, Balsam Hill® even has a Color+Clear® light option that allows you to change the lights from clear, to multicolor, or both with a click of a remote control.

Our customers enjoy knowing they can decorate their Balsam Hill® Christmas tree as early as they like and leave them up for as long as the Christmas spirit moves them.

Visit the Balsam Hill Web site to learn about all the different shapes of artificial trees available.

Check out Balsam Hill's collection of skirts and ornaments.

Balsam Hill Christmas Tree Company - Balsam Hill's trees look like the real thing.

They sell balsam wreaths as well as birch twig wreaths, even some interesting ones made out of feathers.

Maine Accents sells kits for making wreaths with balsam branches, or you can buy individual boughs (in one-pound or 10-pound boxes) to make your own sweet-smelling swags.

Several other pines are found, and among the less important timber trees are black spruce, Carolina balsam, beeches, ashes, sycamore or button wood, sweet gum and lindens.

The .modern "balm of Gilead" or "Mecca balsam," an aromatic gum produced by the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, is more likely the Hebrew mor, which the English Bible wrongly renders "myrrh."

He began his experimental work in 1841 with investigations of oil of turpentine and tolu balsam, in the course of which he discovered toluene.

Balsam of Tolu, produced by Myroxylon toluiferum, a native of Venezuela and New Granada; balsam of Peru, derived from Myroxylon Pereirae, a native of San Salvador in Central America; Mexican and Brazilian elemi, produced by various species of Icica or "incense trees," and the liquid exudation of an American species of Liquidambar, are all used as incense in America.

The language spoken by the Pipils of Salvador (Balsam Coast) is a very old dialect of the Mexican language of the highland of Mexico.

The summits of some of the mountains are too high for trees and above belts of dwarf spruce, balsam and birch they are clothed chiefly with sandworts, diapensia, cassiope, rushes, sedges and lichens.

About four-fifths of the park is covered with dense forests of black pine (Pinus Murrayana), balsam, fir, spruce, cedar and poplar.

Quicklime mixed with white of egg, hardened Canada balsam, and thick copal or mastic varnish are also useful for cementing broken china, which should be warmed before their application.

Krummholz oil, valued in Germany as an outward application in rheumatism and for bruises and sprains, is distilled from the young branches, and a fragrant white resin that exudes in some quantity from the buds is used for similar purposes and as a perfume, under the name of Hungarian balsam it is sold in the towns of Germany, being probably obtained from the Carpathians.

The tamarack and cedar swamps now have a growth, especially on their edges, of spruce, balsam, white pine, soft maple, ash and aspens.

The balsam fir and in the south the red cedar occur in scant quantities; more widely distributed, but growing only under marked local conditions, is the yellow or Alaska cedar, a very hard and durable wood of fine grain and pleasant odour.

Less known turpentines are obtained from the mountain pine, P. Pumilio, the stone pine, P. Cembra, the Aleppo pine, P. halepensis, &c. The so-called Canada balsam, from Abies balsamea, is also a true turpentine.

The tissues, in fact, are preserved just as they would be in Canada balsam.

The odor is a little like balsam and terebinth, and the taste astringent.

Fregert, S. and Rorsman, H. (1963) Simultaneous hypersensitivity to balsam of pine and to balsam of pine and to balsam of Peru.

There are 144 different species of flowering plant growing on the hill, including small balsam, lords and ladies and climbing corydalis.

Examples include mink, signal crayfish, common carp and plants such a Himalayan balsam, New Zealand pigmy weed and parrots feather.

Himalayan balsam, a garden escapee has been found at a number of sites along the river.

A florist developed contact dermatitis from the foliage of balsam fir; a patch test produced a positive reaction (Kappes 1948 ).

Himalayan balsam, New Zealand pigmy weed and parrots feather.

A small Western balsam poplar P. trichocarpa is found along the footpath on Dog Kennel Hill.

During 2003 local people were involved in a project at Forfar Loch to help reduce another invasive species, the Himalayan balsam.

They contain the poplar or aspen (Populus tremuloides), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and paper or canoe birch (Betula papyrifera).

From Labrador it ranges to the southern shores of Hudson's Bay and to those of the Great Bear Lake, and to the valley of the Yukon and the coast of Alaska, forming with the aspen, the larch, the balsam poplar, the banksian pine, the black and white spruces and the balsam fir, the great subarctic transcontinental forest; and southward it ranges through all the forest region of the Dominion of Canada and the northern states."

Christmas Wreath is scented with fresh-cut boughs and branches of pine, balsam, and hollyberry.

The best selling varieties over the history of the Christmas tree are Scotch Pine, Douglas Fir, Fraser Fir, Balsam Fir, and White Pine.

Balsam Hill creates multiple lines of artisan Christmas trees, garlands, wreaths, and holiday ornamentation.

Katherine Shah is a marketing and operations analyst with Balsam Hill.

Choose high quality PE needles, like ultra-realistic True Needle® foliage by Balsam Hill, which looks and feels just like natural needles.

Red oak, birch, elm, ash, white cedar, hemlock, basswood, spruce, poplar, balsam, fir and several other kinds of trees are found in many sections; but a large portion of the merchantable timber, especially in the lower peninsula, has been cut.'

Next in importance after spruce, in the interior, is birch, and then balsam poplar.

Gum benzoin, which contains from 12 to 20% of benzoic acid, is used in medicine as the essential constituent of benzoated lard, Adeps benzoatus, which owes its antiseptic properties to benzoic acid; and in friar's balsam, Tinctura benzoini composita, which is an ancient and valuable medicament, still largely used for inhalation in cases of laryngitis, bronchitis and other inflammatory or actually septic conditions of the respiratory tract.

Rare plants, such as touch-me-not balsam Impatiens noli-tangere and alpine enchanter's-nightshade Circaea alpina, also have important British occurrences here.

Rockdale Wreaths offers a large selection of fresh Christmas wreaths made from Balsam Fir.

They use Balsam Fir, Noble Fir, Shorewood Pine, and Wild Boxwood.

Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993.

It is allied to the Balsam Fir, but has shorter and more oval cones, and leaves with silvery undersides.

Balsam Fir (Abies Balsamea) - A slender northern forest Fir rarely attaining a height of more than 80 feet, and much smaller in high Arctic regions.

In these northern habitats it attains a large size; the wood is very soft; the buds yield a gum-like balsam, from which the common name is derived; considered valuable as an.

Owing to their want of adhesiveness, they are, however, usually mounted on glass as microscopic slides, either in glycerin jelly, Canada balsam or some other suitable medium.

If we take a thin layer of natural Canada balsam and heat it strongly for a little time most of the volatile oils are driven out of it.