balm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
2. isim An aromatic preparation for embalming the dead.
3. isim A plant or tree yielding such substance.
4. isim Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
5. isim Something soothing.

   “Classical music is a sweet balm for our sorrows.”

6. isim The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis.
7. isim Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horsebalm.
8. fiil To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.

   “Shrouded in cloth of state, balmed and entreasured / With full bags of spices!”

9. fiil To soothe; to mitigate.

   “This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews”