Word Meanings - SAGAPENUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.
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- HYSTERIA
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - FETIDNESS
The quality or state of being fetid. - FERULACEOUS
Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - RESIN
Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin - RESINOUSNESS
The quality of being resinous. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - RESINOUS
Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative. - RESINATE
Any one of the salts the resinic acids. - SELDOMNESS
Rareness. Hooker. - RESINOID
Somewhat like resin. - RESINIFEROUS
Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel. - RESINO-ELECTRIC
Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity. - SELDOM
Rare; infrequent. "A suppressed and seldom anger." Jer. Taylor. - RESINIC
Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids. - FETID
Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon. - FERULA
punishing schoolboys), rod, whip, fr. ferire to strike; akin to OHG. 1. A ferule. Beau. & Fl. 2. The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire. - RESINY
Like resin; resinous. - OBTAINMENT
The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton. - OLEORESIN
A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin. - REOBTAINABLE
That may be reobtained. - KAURI RESIN; KAURI GUM; KAURI COPAL
A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. - REOBTAIN
To obtain again. - ASAFETIDA; ASAFOETIDA
The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant of Persia and the East India.