The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself.
Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf, under Shin.
It is needless to add that the miserable man, thus put upon his gallantry, was obliged in honor to provide Del with the wintergreen lozenges that kept him in disfavor and at a distance.
By using dispatch I can catch the boat at Wintergreen this afternoon," he said.
I never smell wintergreen now without thinkin' of that day.
This artificial wintergreen oil is now much used for perfuming purposes.
Shave the soap into ribbons, beat it into a paste with a little water, and add first the prepared chalk and lastly the thymol and wintergreen oil dissolved in a little water.
In speaking of the volatile oils used in perfumery, two artificial perfume-materials, artificial oils of bitter almonds and wintergreen have already been mentioned.
MacEwan the adulteration of wintergreen oil with camphor oil is carried on at a large scale.
Wintergreen oil is also obtained by distillation from Gaultheria punctata and Gaultheria leucocarpa.
Wintergreen oil is said to be frequently adulterated with sassafras oil which is also specifically heavier than water.
Wintergreen oil (oleum gaultheriæ) is obtained by distillation from the wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, a plant common in North America.
Rub the affected parts with oil of wintergreen and then wrap the parts in cotton wool and soak with the solution.
A New York mother sends in the following relief for:--"Give enough essence of wintergreen in water to make it taste for a small babe, and more according to age.
Pour the water over the ingredients, then cover and macerate until cool, after which strain, add the 8 ounces of sugar and dissolve by agitation; add enough oil of wintergreen for suitable flavoring.
Oil of Wintergreen 1/2 to 1 ounce Compound Soap Liniment 8 ounces Mix and rub on thoroughly.
The dark glossy leaves of the Wintergreen are spoon-shaped, with wavy edges.
The Wintergreen flowers are not unlike Lily-of-the-Valley.
Twigs and bark with the odor of wintergreen =Sweet Birch, Betula lenta.
If you go into the woods where the evergreens grow in July you will find the Little Wintergreen in bloom.
Later in the year you will find the little red Wintergreen berries.
Grandpa Grumbles felt in his overcoat pocket and took out sixteen pieces of Wintergreen candy.
You must wear a pink wrapper, and drink tea out of a pink cup, and eat pink wintergreen candy!
All this time Snubby Nose sat up in his pink wrapper drinking tea out of a pink cup and eating pink wintergreen candy.
Gay companies of these charming, bright little blossoms hidden away in the woods suggest a swarm of tiny mauve butterflies that have settled among the wintergreen leaves.
In some sections a kind of tea is steeped from the leaves, which also furnish the old-fashioned embrocation, wintergreen oil.
Little baskets of wintergreen berries bring none too high prices in the fancy fruit and grocery shops when we calculate how many charming plants such unnatural use of them sacrifices.
Quite a different species, belonging to another family, bears the true Partridgeberry, albeit the wintergreen shares with it a number of popular names.
Bark of trunk not white, usually dark colored, not separating freely into papery layers; twigs with more or less wintergreen taste; leaves solitary or in pairs, aromatic.
Bark dirty-yellow, breaking into strips more or less curled at the edges; twigs with slight wintergreen taste.
Bark dirty-yellow, breaking into strips more or less curled at the edges; leaves solitary or in pairs, slightly aromatic; twigs with slight wintergreen taste.
Bark of trunk white, separating freely into thin, papery layers; twigs without wintergreen taste; leaves usually solitary, not aromatic.
Bark of trunk not white, usually dark colored, not separating into papery layers; twigs with more or less wintergreen taste.
Fill it full of wintergreen berries," said Old Jim Crow.
The wintergreen drops may be tinted pink with fruit color.
Had he not some of the beautiful auburn tresses of Cynthia Rudd in his skate, spruce-gum, and wintergreen box at home?
And then in the fragrant hill pasture there were beds of wintergreen with red berries, tufts of columbine, roots of sassafras to be dug, and dozens of things good to eat or to smell, that I could not resist.
On the opposite side from us were woods, where wintergreen berries were plentiful.
About a mile below the whirlpool is that remarkable projection into the gorge from the Canadian wall which is known as Wintergreen Flats, below which and nearer the river are Fosters Flats.
Drilling of the gorge from the Lewiston Escarpment to the Cove section above the Wintergreen Flats.
Bird’s-eye view of the captured Canadian Fall at Wintergreen Flats, showing the section of the river bed above the cliff and the blocks of fallen Niagara limestone strewn over the abandoned channel below (after Gilbert).
The locality is known as Wintergreen Flats, or sometimes as Fosters Flats; though the first name properly applies to a higher surface near the brink of the gorge, and Fosters Flats to a lower plain near the level of the river (see Fig.
Checkerberry= Almost every one knows the little cherry-red wintergreen berry or checkerberry, and almost every one likes its sweet aromatic flavor but few would care to make a meal of it.
Color the rose, strawberry, and wintergreen a delicate pink and the lemon a deep yellow.
If you should have more cream melted up than you have impressions made for, you may flavor it highly with wintergreen or peppermint, and with a spoon, drop it out in wafers.
In wintergreen wafers, add a small amount of damask rose coloring, to make them a delicate pink.
Drop out some wintergreen or peppermint wafers in the manner described before, only use center cream instead of bon-bon cream, then coat with chocolate.
The delicate drooping pink blossom of the Wintergreen grow in open spikes on slender stems 5-7 in.
The white man discovered the properties of this plant from the Indians, and originally wintergreen was the chief source of methyl salicylate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wintergreen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
