Crossword clues for olibanum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Olibanum \O*lib"a*num\, n. [LL., fr. Ar. al-luban frankincense; cf. Gr. ?, ?, of Semitic origin.] The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.
Wiktionary
n. A gum resin from trees of the genus ''Boswellia'', formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense. (from 14th c.)
WordNet
n. an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation [syn: frankincense, gum olibanum, thus]
Usage examples of "olibanum".
The fumes of the olibanum were thick, and all that could be glimpsed of the revealed hand was something long and black.
Amidst the strain and the olibanum fumes that act of vanishing in the clock might easily have been a dual hallucination.
In a vast room hung with strangely figured arras and filled with olibanum fumes, Etienne Laurent de Marigny often sits listening with vague sensations to the abnormal rhythm of that hieroglyphed, coffin-shaped clock.
In Rome, Olibanum alone is employed: in the Russian church, Benzoin is chiefly employed.
The ingredients are cinnabar, flowers of sulphur, olibanum, myrrh, camphor, Dragon's Blood, sulphate of copper, musk, burnt alum, bear's gall, yellow lead, centipedes, earthworms, silkworms, plum blossoms, cow bezoar, toad spittle, white jade dust, borax, tree grubs, and snails, and while some may consider the price slightly steep, the wise will consider the alternative.