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Meanings of balsam in English

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A semisolid preparation intended for external application to the skin or mucous membranes. (source: UMLS)

        Russian
        бальзам
        Portuguese
        unguento
        Catalan
        pomada
        Spanish
        bálsamo

        Resinous exudate (or sap), which forms on certain kinds of trees and shrubs.

              бальзам
              Usage of balsam in English
              1
              That is the open wound for which Austria seeks balsam from Turkey.
              Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
              2
              The crisp air came laden with the perfume of spruce and balsam.
              The Lure of the Labrador Wild
              3
              Black spruce and balsam and cedar glistened as if bathed in enamel.
              The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
              4
              Hæmatoxylin and carmine preparations may be mounted either in glycerine or balsam.
              Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany / For High Schools ...
              5
              Another stripped a pile of boughs from a balsam for the beds.
              Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
              6
              They quickly prepared some balsam and put it on his wounded head.
              Algonquin Indian Tales
              7
              He was rough leather and restless energy, sweet balsam and hot sun.
              Celtic fire
              8
              It is rather a bad one, and balsam is good for healing.
              A Mating in the Wilds
              9
              Along the road at various places people have balsam pillows for sale.
              See America First
              10
              This The Doctor immediately did, applying lint and Friars balsam to them.
              Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
              11
              A merchant of Bagdad had ten barrels of precious balsam for sale.
              Amusements in Mathematics
              12
              A little sprig of balsam would not have mattered so much-butgeraniums!
              Poor Folk
              13
              The night was cold, crisp, scented with applewood smoke and balsam pine.
              Immortal wolf
              14
              The delicious odor of balsam and of burning wax-candles was in the air.
              Children of the Tenements
              15
              The buckskin bags in the balsam shelter grew heavier and heavier.
              The Gold Hunters: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Ba...
              16
              As soon as he had bathed in the balsam the leeches dropped off.
              The Parables of Our Lord
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              Catalan
              pomada
              Balsam through the time
              Balsam across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common