 | John Lunan - 1814 - 564 pages
...smell,, not unlikë that of citrons ; but the taste is acrid >and aromatic. It is pellucid, tenacious, or glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. It scarcely ever becomes fluid or liquid, by the heat of the sun, in the westerly part of •Asian... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 376 pages
...green, then to yellow, and at last it assumes the colour of honey ,and the consistence of turpentine. It is also very tenacious and glutinous, sticking...the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. The mode of ascertaining the purity of this balsam at Cairo and Mecca is, to drop it into a cup of clear... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 370 pages
...green, then to yellow, and at last it assumes the colour of honey ,and the consistence of turpentine. It is also very tenacious and glutinous, sticking...the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. The mode of ascertaining the purity of this balsam at Cairo and Mecca is, to drop it into a cup of clear... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1865 - 1392 pages
...has a most fragrant smell, which is resinous, balsamick, and very agreeable. It • very tenacious or glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. . . I have xtu it at a Turkish surgeon's, who had it immediately from Mecca, described it, and was... | |
 | William Smith - 1868 - 1090 pages
...has a most fragrant smell, which is resinous, balsamic, and very agreeable. It is very tenacious or glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. . . I have seen it at a Turkish surgeon's, who had it immediately from Mecca, described it, and was... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 304 pages
...immediately on 1ts filtration from the tree which yields it, and scarcely to be found pure anywhere. The marks of its supposed purity are. a very yellow...strong fragrant smell, with something of the lemon or c1tron flavour, and a bitter, sharp, and astringent taste. It is also very tenacious and glutinous,... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 920 pages
...It has a most fragrant smell, which U resinous balsamic, and very agreeable. It is very tenacious or glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. I have seen it at a Turkish surgeon's, who had it immediately from Mecca, described it, and was informed... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 648 pages
...immediately on its filtration from the tree which yields it, and scarcely to be found pure anywhere. The marks of its supposed purity are, a very yellow...tenacious and glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and capable of being drawn into long threads. OPOPONAX [Ger. Du. Da. and Sw. Opoponax, Fr. Opopeinax, It.... | |
 | William Smith - 1875 - 1134 pages
...has a most fragrant smell, which is resinous, balsamick, and rery agreeable. It is very tenacious or glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads. . . I hare seen it at a Turkish surgeon's, who had it immediately from Mecca, described it, and was... | |
 | William Smith - 1876 - 742 pages
...bai a most fragrant smell, which is resinouc, balsamick, and very agreeable. It is very tenacious or glutinous, sticking to the fingers, and may be drawn into long threads." BA'MAH (lit. "high-place.") This word appears in it* Hebrew form only in one passage (Ez. xx, 29),... | |
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Gilead. 1 1 ; i -. . , •!, 1 1 ii .1 has given a description of the true balsam-tree of Mecca. He says that the exudation from the plant " is of a yellow color, and pellucid. It has a most fragrant smell, which U resinous balsamic, and very agreeable.... 
