Fifty thousand drachms of the best wood of aloes, with thirty grains of camphire as big as pistachios.
The juice of which the camphire is made exudes from a hole bored in the upper part of the tree, is received in a vessel, where it thickens to a consistency, and becomes what we call camphire.
These must bee made of the compositions for Starres, wrought upon cotton weeke dipped in aqua vitæ, wherein camphire hath beene dissolved, and after what fashions your fancy doth most affect.
Take of Roch peter one pound, flowre of brimstone nine ounces, coales of rotten wood six ounces, camphire one ounce and a halfe, oyle of egges, and oyle of Tile enough to make the mixture into a paste.
And you may take notice, some say that camphire put into your bag with your moss and worms gives them a strong and so tempting a smell, that the fish fare the worse and you the better for it.
And they may be kept longer by keeping them cool, and in fresh moss; and some advise to put camphire into it.
These may be the islands of the first climate from whence the Arabians imported theircamphire (Geograph.
Strangers to the name and properties of that odoriferous gum, the Saracens, mistaking it for salt, mingled the camphire in their bread, and were astonished at the bitterness of the taste.
From the remote islands of the Indian Ocean a large provision of camphire [25] had been imported, which is employed with a mixture of wax to illuminate the palaces of the East.
In the Canticles, the royal poet says: "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of Camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
The Camphireor Camphor-tree (Laurus Camphora) is principally found in China and Japan.
In the experiment that the child has just tried, after having separated the camphire from the spirit of wine by precipitation, he may separate the spirit from the water by distillation.
A child may have some spirit of wine and some camphire given to him; the camphire will dissolve in the spirit of wine, till the spirit is saturated; but then he will be at a loss how to separate them again.
When the water was poured in, the spirit of wine attracted the water more strongly than it did the camphire; the camphire being let loose, fell to the bottom of the vessel.
There is no doubt of the fact as to a temporary effect; and camphire is therefore a strong and immediate antidote to an overdose of 'cantharides'.
In this shipp we have laden a small parcell of camphire of Barouse, being in all 60 catts.
Brandy in which Camphire is infus'd, or Spirit of Wine, is likewise a most excellent Remedy; as also all Lotions or Washes made with the Waters or Decoctions of Anti-scorbutick Plants.
It ought also to be observ'd, thatCamphire must always be mingled in the topical Medicines for the Cure of the Gangrene.
It is a fine cooling, drying ointment, eases pains, and itching in wounds and ulcers, and is an hundred times better with Camphire than without it.
Virginius vow'd to keep his maidenhead, And eats chaste lettuce and drinks poppy head, And smells on camphire fasting.
From the remote islands of the Indian Ocean a large provision of camphire had been imported, which is employed with a mixture of wax to illuminate the palaces of the East.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camphire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
