Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A garden-herb, Melissa officinalis. See balm, 7, and Melissa.
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Examples
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Several small studies have found that lavender and lemon-balm oils can reduce anxiety and agitation, at least among intensive-care and dementia patients.
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Now her preparations paid off; it didn't take long for her to mix those four ingredients, chamomile, and lemon-balm tinctures, plus the honey, for cough syrup.
Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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While the vallied garden of our old neighbors was sweet with blossoms, my mother's garden bore a still fresher fragrance -- that of green growing things; of "posies," lemon-balm, rose geranium, mint, and sage.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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" She rinsed her hands in lemon-balm water to remove the vinegar smell and any lingering trace of wormwood - poison, if ingested - and dried them on a clean rag.
Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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