balm

  • 61balm of Gil|e|ad — «GIHL ee uhd», 1. a) a fragrant ointment prepared from the resin of certain Asiatic and African evergreen trees; balsam Mecca. b) any one of the various evergreen trees that yield this resin. 2. a kind of poplar with large, fragrant, resinous… …

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  • 62Balm Naaba Targnèbga — fut un ministre et guerrier infatigable de Naaba Ligdi, grand roi de Boussouma, au Burkina Faso. Fils de Napaga Nassoum, et de Zoukognaaba Parzoum, son nom de guerre est Kounounkoung Targnèbga Npassa Piroungou autrement dit, Le crocodile qui est… …

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  • 63balm of Gilead — n. 〚in allusion to Jer. 8:22〛 1. a) a small evergreen tree (Commiphora opobalsamum) of the bursera family native to Asia and Africa b) the resinous juice of this tree, used in ancient times in an aromatic ointment 2. anything healing or soothing… …

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  • 64balm-of-Gilead — balm′ of Gil′ead n. 1) pln any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, of the bursera family, esp. C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin 2) pln the resin itself, a turbid, viscid liquid used chiefly in perfumery… …

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  • 65balm of Gilead — n. [in allusion to Jer. 8:22] 1. a) a small evergreen tree (Commiphora opobalsamum) of the bursera family native to Asia and Africa b) the resinous juice of this tree, used in ancient times in an aromatic ointment 2. anything healing or soothing… …

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  • 66balm-cricket — /bäm krikˈit/ (Tennyson) noun A cicada ORIGIN: Ger Baum tree, and ↑cricket2 …

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  • 67Balm|er series — «BAHL muhr», a series of radiations emitted by electrons, appearing in the spectra of white stars as bright lines spaced at regularly decreasing intervals from red to violet. ╂[< Johann Balmer, 1825 1898, a Swiss physicist] …

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  • 68balm-apple — see balsam apple in balsam n. 10 …

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  • 69Balm bei Meiringen — BE dient als Kürzel für den Schweizer Kanton Bern und wird verwendet, um Verwechslungen mit anderen Einträgen des Namens Balm zu vermeiden …

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  • 70Balm (Adelsgeschlecht) — Die Familie von Balm war ein Freiherrengeschlecht, das im 13. und frühen 14. Jahrhundert im schweizerischen Mittelland während etwa vier Generationen auftrat. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Herkunft 2 Namensträger 3 Literatur 4 …

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