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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.