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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The name of various resins, also known in pharmacy as elemi (which see).
  2. n. A kind of copal, the produce principally of a leguminous tree, Trachylobium Hornemannianum, of Zanzibar. The best is that dug from the ground at the base of the trees, or that found in a semi-fossil state in localities where the tree is now extinct.
  3. n. The produce of a very nearly allied tree of tropical America, Hymenæa Courbaril, known in the West Indies as the locust-tree. It makes a fine varnish, and, as it burns with a very fragrant smell, is used in scenting pastilles.
  4. n. Indian copal, produced by Vateria Indica. See Vateria.
  5. n. Sometimes called gum anime.
  6. In heraldry, animated, excited; showing a desire to fight: said of an animal and represented by giving the eyes, etc., a tincture different from that of the body.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of anime.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Her.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
  2. n. A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenæa courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various resins or oleoresins
  2. n. a hard copal derived from an African tree

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  • hernesheir Straight to my heraldry terms list! Thanks, ruzuzu. Nov 2, 2012

  • ruzuzu "In heraldry, animated, excited; showing a desire to fight: said of an animal and represented by giving the eyes, etc., a tincture different from that of the body."
    --Cent. Dict. Nov 2, 2012

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