Incense, esp. frankincense. Also: the smoke or aroma of incense.

Incense.

An aromatic gum or other vegetable product, or a mixture of fragrant gums and spices, used for producing a sweet smell when burned.

Incense.

Chiefly in plural. Products of this kind employed as drugs or perfumes, or for burning as incense. Obsolete.

An aromatic gum resin obtained from trees of the North African genus Boswellia (family Burseraceae), esp. Boswellia sacra, formerly used as a…

Frankincense. Olibanum.

An aromatic gum resin, yielded by trees of the genus Boswellia, used for burning as incense; olibanum; occasionally the smoke from the same.

= frankincense, n.

Incense, frankincense.

= male incense n. at male, adj. n.1compounds 1c.

= olibanum, n.

elliptical. The fumes of incense. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Originally: a substance which emits a pleasant smell when burned; incense. Later usually: a fragrant liquid, usually consisting of aromatic…

= male incense n. at male, adj. n.1compounds 1c.

An aromatic resin, used for incense, and formerly extensively in medicine: (a) (originally) that yielded by a Mexican tree, Bursera (Elaphrium) tome…

(See quots.)

= masculine frankincense n.

transferred. A preparation containing resinous or aromatic substances for diffusion during burning; a pastil. medicated candle n. (see quots.)

A small pellet of aromatic paste burnt as a perfume, esp. as a fumigator, deodorizer, or disinfectant. Now historical.

an aromatic composition [Spanish pebete] burned as a perfume.

= frankincense, n. (obsolete).

Incense.

Incense.

Incense, esp. Chinese incense; (also) a stick of incense, a joss stick.

a thin cylinder or stick of fragrant tinder mixed with clay, used by the Chinese as incense, etc.

(a) = joss-stick n. at joss, n.1 compounds 2 (now rare); (b) (with reference to certain traditional cultures of Polynesia and East Asia, now esp…