balneation 
balneationt (bal-ne-a'shon), . [< ML. balne- 
arc, pp. balneatus, bathe" < L. balneum, a bath: 
see balneum.'] The act of bathing. 
Balneatiiia*, washings, and fomentations. 
>;/ T. firtncne, Vulg. Err., 11. 6. 
balneatory (bal'ne-a-to-ri), a. [< L. balnea- 
torii/x, < balnea tor, 'a "bath-keeper, < balneum, a 
bath : see balneum.'] Of or pertaining to a bath 
or bath-keeper. 
All the refinements of tile antique balnf alary art. 
L. Hearii, tr. of Gautier's Cleop. Nights, p. 45. 
balneot, . [For Itatjnin, after L. balneum.'] 
Same as bagnio, 1. 
Then began Christian churches ... to outshine . . . 
the Balnfta anil Theatres of free Cities. 
Bp. Gaudeii, Tears of the Church, p. 3fil. 
balneography (bal-nf-og'ra-fi), . [< L. bal- 
neum, & bath (see balneum), + Gr. -ypa<t>ia, < 
ypaiptiv, write.] A description of baths. Dun- 
glison. 
balneological (bal-ne-o-loj'i-kal), a. Of or per- 
taining to balneology. 
balneology (bal-nf-ol'6-ji), n. [< L. balneum, 
a bath, + Gr. -fayta, (ftfeiv, speak: see balneum 
and -oloyy.'] A treatise on baths or bathing ; 
the use of baths and bathing as a department 
of therapeutics. 
Among our medical schools balneology as a subject of 
systematic study is entirely neglected. 
Harper's May., LXIX. 438. 
balneotherapeutics (baFne-6-ther-a-pu'tiks), 
n. [< L. balneum, bath (see 'balneum), + thera- 
peutics.'] Balneotherapy. 
balneotherapia (bal*ne-6-ther-a-pi '&), n . [NL. , 
< L. balneum, a bath (see balneum), + Gr. 8cpa- 
ireia, medical treatment : see therapeutic."] Same 
as balneotherapy. 
balneotherapy (bal*ne-o-ther'a-pi), n. [Eng- 
lished from balneotherapia.] The treatment of 
disease by baths ; water-cure. 
Balneotherapy, or bathing, and treatment by medica- 
ments. Sci. Amer. (N. 8.), LIV. 4. 
balneum (bal'ne-um), . ; pi. balnea (-&). [L., 
fuller form balineum, < Gr. [3a?Mvelov, a bath, < 
flafaveveiv, bathe. From L. balneum come bag- 
nio and 6ai 2 , q. v.] In chem., a vessel filled 
with water or sand, in which another vessel is 
placed to be heated ; a bath. See bath 1 , S. 
balolo (ba-16'16), . A sea-worm found in the 
South Pacific ocean. See palolo. 
The balolo is a small sea-worm, long and thin as ordi 
nary vermicelli. Some are fully a yard long, others about 
an inch. It has a jointed body and many legs, and lives 
in the deep sea. 
C. F. Oordon-Cmnmiiig, At Home 111 Fiji, p. 66. 
balont, balonet, See balloon^. 
balonea (ba-16'ne-a), n. [See ralonia."] A name 
for an oak, Quereus dZgitops, large quantities 
of the cups of which are exported from the 
Mediterranean basin for tanners' use. See 
ralonia. 
baloot, inter}, and n. See batoic. 
balotade, n. See ballotade. 
balowt, baloot, interj. and n. [Nursery sylla- 
bles.] I. interj. An utterance used in lulling 
to sleep. 
434 
balsamy 
Hee balutt ! my sweet wee Donald. 
Burns, Song. 
from trees or shrubs, whether spontaneous or 
after incision; balm. A great variety of substances 
pass under this name ; but ill chemistry the term is con- 
II. . 1. A lullaby. 2. A song containing 
this word. N. E. D. 
bals. An abbreviation of the Latin balsamum, 
that is, balsam, used in medical prescriptions. 
balsa, balza (bal'sft, -zii), n. [< Sp. Pg. balsa (> 
F. balse, baize), < Peruv. balza, a kind of light 
porous wood used in Peru for constructing 
rafts.] 1. The native name of the Ochroma 
Lagopus, a bombaceous tree common in the 
forests upon the coasts of tropical America. 
The wood is very soft and light, and is used for stopping 
bottles, as well as in the construction of rafts which take 
its name. 
2. A kind of raft or float much used on the 
west coast of South America for crossing lakes 
or rivers, for landing through the surf, and by 
fishermen. It is there formed of two inflated cylinders 
of seal-skin or bullock's hide, joined by a sort of platform 
on which the passengers or goods are placed. In the 
United States the name is given to two or more inflated 
cylinders of india-rubber, or long casks of metal or wood, 
secured together in pairs by a framework, and used as a 
life-saving raft or for crossing heavy surf. See l(fe-rafl. 
balsam (bal'sam), n. [Early mod. E. also bal- 
sem, balsum, toboiM (in ME. only as balm, q. v.), 
< AS. balsam, balsam, < L. balsamum, < Gr. /?aX- 
aaiwv, the resin of the balsam-tree, the tree it- 
self ; /3dAo-a/ior, a balsam-tree ; prob. of Semitic 
origin: seefeofm.] 1. An oily, aromatic, resinous 
substance, exuding spontaneously from trees 
of the genus BaUamodendron ; hence, by ex- 
tension, any aromatic or odoriferous exudation 
tween a volatile oil and a resin. It is soluble ill alcohol 
and ether, and capable of yielding benzoic acid. The bal- 
sams are either liquid or solid : of the former are the balm 
of cileadand the balsams of copaiba, Peru, and Tolu (see 
below); of the latter, benzoin, dragon's blood, and storax. 
2. To embalm. [Rare.] 
\Ve had him balxnwt'd and sent home. 
Mi'tl.'i,, Hutch Republic, I. 222. 
An annual 
regions, Mo- 
small warty fruit 
of a red or orange color. Both the fruit and the 
root are actively purgative. Wild balsam-apple, of the 
t'nited States, an annual vine, Kclrinnrn*ti* Inhntn. of the 
orcU-r Cttcurbitacecp, bearing numerous white flowers and 
n flbrous fruit opening at the summit. 
- n), n. [< ML. bal- 
baltiauiatHx. tobal- 
by the popes for the use of the balsams of Brazil, sam, <, L,. oainamtini, oaisaui.] The act of ren- 
Tolu, Peru, etc. dering balsamic. [Rare.] 
Many of the resins occur in plants dissolved in ethereal balsam-bog (bal'sam-bog), n. A curious urn- 
oils. Should the vessels which contain this solution be b e lliferous plant o? the Falkland islands, f orm- 
oii U expo8ureto S tlie af" partly 'from evaporation" of" the ing hard hemispherical hillocks often from 2 
solvent oil, and partly 'by its oxidation. Such mixtures to 4 feet in height. It yields a gum which has 
of oils and resins are termed balsams. been used in medicine. 
Strieker, Organic Chemistry, p. 73-2. balsam . herb (bal'sam-erb), n. A name given 
2t. An aromatic preparation used for embalm- in j ama i ca to Dianihera reptans, an acantha- 
ingthe dead. 3. Any aromatic fragrant oint- eeous p i an t 
ment, whether for ceremonial or for medicinal ba i sam i c (b' a l- or bal-sam'ik), a. and n. [< bal- 
use, as for healing wounds or soothing pain. 8a/M + .,> ] I . 1 Pertaining to or of the na- 
4. Figuratively, any healing or soothing agent ture of balsam: as, balsamic juices. 2. Yield- 
or agency. 
la this the balsam that the usuring senate 
Pours into captains' wounds? Shak. . T. of A. , iii. S. 
Was not the people's blessing . . . a balsam to thy blood? 
Tennyson, Becket, 1. 24. 
5f. In alchemy, a healthful preservative essence, 
of oily penetrative nature, conceived by Para- 
celsus to exist in all organic bodies. JV. E. D. 
6. A tree yielding an aromatic, oily resin. In 
the Vnited States the name is often applied generally to 
the firs (species of Abies), and sometimes ignorantly to the 
ing balsam: as, balsamic pine. 3. Having the 
fragrance of balsam ; aromatic ; balmy. 
The new-leaved butternut 
And quivering poplar to the roving breeze 
Gave a balsamic fragrance. 
Brj/ant, Old Man's Counsel. 
4. Having the healing or soothing qualities of 
balsam; healing; soothing; mild: as, balsamic 
remedies. 5t. Of or pertaining to the balsam 
of the alchemists. See balsam, 5. 
H. n. Any warm, stimulating, demulcent 
medicine, of a smooth and oily consistence. 
spruces also. See balsam-tree. 
7. Thelmpatiensbalsamina, a familiar flowering , 
annual, of Eastern origin, cultivated in many balsamicalt (bal- or bal-sam i-kal), a. bame as 
balsamic. 
The balsatnical humour of my blood. 
Sir M. Halt, Orig. of Mankind, i. 1. 
balsamically (bal- or bal-sam'i-kal-i), adv. In 
a balsamic manner ; as a balsam. 
balsamiferous (bal- or bal-sa-mif 'e-rus). a. 
[< L. balsamum, balsam, + ferre = E. bear 1 ."] 
Producing balm or balsam : said of those trees 
and shrubs which yield balsam. 
balsamina (bal-sa-ml'na), n. [NL. : see bal- 
samine.'] Same as balsamine. 
balsamine (bal'sam-in), H. [< F. balsamine = 
Sp. Pg. It. balsamina, < NL. balsamina (< Gr. 
fU).aauivn), balsam-plant, prop. fern, of L. balsa- 
minus, < Gr. */3aA<jd/j>of, pertaining to balsam, 
< ftafaafurv, balsam.] A name given to the 
garden-balsam and to some other species of 
the genus Impatiens (which see). 
balsamitict (bal-sa-mit'ik), a. [< ML. 'balsa- 
mitieus (cf. ML. balsamaticus), < L. balsamum."] 
Balsamic. 
balsamito (bal-sa-me'to), n. [In form Sp. or 
Pg. ; cf. Sp. balsa'inita (= Pg. balsamita), tansy, 
< balsa mo, balsam: see balm."] A liquid having 
a bitter taste, the odor of the Tonquin bean, and 
Flowering br.inch of Balsam (linfatbns/Mlva,. 
(From Gray's " Genera of the Plants of the United States.") 
varieties, often called garden-balsam, and in the 
United States lady's-slipper; also, the native Eu- 
ropean species, /. Noli-me-tangere,&nAihe Amer- a light sherry-color, produced by digesting the 
ican /. fulca. See Impatiens and balsam-weed, fruit of the balsam of Peru in rum. It is used a 
In medical prescriptions abbreviated to bals. a medicine, and also as an application to sloughing sores, 
especially to those caused by the chigoe. 
alsamize (bal'sam-iz), V. t.; pret. and pp. bal- 
~ 
[< balsam + -ize.~] 
Balsam of Mecca, balm of Gilead. See bairn. Balsam 
of Peru, the product of MyroxyloH Pereirae, a leguminous ball 
tree of San Salvador. It is employed in perfumery and x wired, ppr. balsamizinq. 
the manufacture of soaps, and in medicine as a stimulat- m , ,_,i,_t, %,!,,, 
ing ointment and for the relief of asthma and coughs.- . 1 ! r . , . 
Balsam of Saturn, a solution of lead acetate in tin-pen- balsamoUS (bal'sam-us), a. [< balsam + -ous.] 
tine, concentrated by evaporation and mixed with cam- Having the qualities of balsam ; abounding in 
phor, formerly used to hasten the cicatrization of wounds balsam ; consisting of balsam. 
Balsam Of Tolu (from Tolu, a seaport in the United 
States of Colombia), a product of Mi/rorvlon Toluifera of Now the radical moisture is not the tallow or fat of ani- 
Venezuela and the fuited States of Colombia, a species mals, but an oily and balsamous substance, 
closely allied to 1U . Pereir<t (see above) It has an agree- 9am, Tristram Shandy, v. 86. 
able flavor, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and balsam-root (bal'sam-rot), n. A name given 
- its properties are not ^important.- in California to species of Balsamvrrhiza, & ge- 
balsaiii of C peru. Broad-leafed bal- nus ^ l w > coarse > perennial composite plants, 
sam, of the West Indies, a small tree belonging to the allied to the sunflower. They have deep thick roots 
natural order Araliafrt*, Sciadophyttvw eapitatiim, yield- which contain a terebinthinate balsam. These roots are 
ing an aromatic balsam, which is derived chiefly from the eaten by the natives after leing peeled and baked, 
berries. Canada balsam, a transparent liquid resin or balsam-tree (bal'sam-tre), . A name given 
lentine obtained by puncturing the vesicles which form to man y o f f ne balsam-bearing trees of the 
tropics (see balsam), and to the mastic-tree, 
Pistacia Lentisncs. In North America it is applied 
to Papultis balsam(fera, and on the western coast to P. 
trichocarpa. It is also given especially to the balsam- 
bearing conifers, Abies balsamea and A. Fraseri in the 
east (the latter tree being distinguished as the she-balsa in), 
and in the Rocky Mountains and westward to A. concolor 
under the bark of the balsam-fir, Abies balsa wea of N 
America. It is much valued for mounting objects for the 
microscope, as it remains permanently transparent, and 
it is also used in making varnish. The principal supply is 
from Canada. Other forms of turpentine from European 
coniferous trees are sometimes called balttam*. Copal 
balsam, ;i balsam obtained from the sweet-gum, Liquid- 
ambar Slyraciftita, very similar to storax and used for 
similar purposes. Yellow balsam, of Jamaica, Crotwi 
fla mi*, an aromatic euphorbiaceous shrub, covered with a 
and A. xitbaljrina. 
rnaica is the Cli 
The balsam-tree or balsam-flg of Ja- 
. 
yellow wool. (For other kinds of balsam, see amiicki-rtsiu, balsam-WCed (bal'sam Ted), n. A name of the 
nuaiba, ffrm, and laaam.) common everlastings of the United States, 
anoint with balm or balsam. oTt~hei7 balsamic fragrance. 
JS^tt^'JSt- JSTJKSa^ ^ ^. W^ (bal'sam-i), a. [< 
Bp. HacM, Abp. Williams, i. 57. Balsam-like ; balmy. 
