Meanings of tragacanth in English

One never has paste or gum tragacanth handy; 2.

A shallow trough is filled with a solution of gum hog or gum tragacanth of the consistency of thick cream.

A bottle of gum tragacanth stood on one corner of the dressing-table, and with its contents Abby matted the unneighborly locks together.

Half a pint of water, rectified spirits with an equal quantity of water three ounces, gum tragacanth one and a half drams.

Perfumers, however, chiefly make bandoline from gum tragacanth, which exudes from a shrub of that name which grows plentifully in Greece and Turkey.

Old French cookery-books recommend the addition of a little powdered gum, not bigger than a pea, and the gum recommended is that known as tragacanth.

Description: A composition of sugar, gum tragacanth (traganth) and citric acid, used in the form of lemonade in case of high carbonic acid poisoning.

"Tell the druggist to use tragacanth paste to hold the pill together."

(17) His powder was composed of copperas alone or mixed with gum tragacanth.