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A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic,

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A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• CASCARILLA
  A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic,
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• CROTONIC
  Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil. Crotonic acid , a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• GENTLE
  1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• TONICAL
  Tonic. Sir T. Browne.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• TONIC
  A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• BITTERWOOD
  A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• PLATONICALLY
  In a Platonic manner.
• PLATONIC; PLATONICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions. 2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• EUPITTONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL
  1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. 2. Relating to
• ARCHITECTONIC
  1. The science of architecture. 2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
• UNSHRUBBED
  Being without shrubs.
• ISOTONIC
  Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension. Isotonic system , a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.