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Amboyna button
(gcide) | Amboyna button \Am*boy"na but"ton\ ([a^]m*boi"n[.a] b[u^]t"t'n),
(Med.)
A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the
tropics.
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Amboyna pine
(gcide) | Amboyna pine \Amboyna pine\ ([a^]m*boi"n[.a] p[imac]n`), (Bot.)
The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.
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Amboyna pitch
(gcide) | Pitch \Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS. pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. ?.]
1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of
ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
to preserve them.
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
--Ecclus.
xiii. 1.
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2. (Geol.) See Pitchstone.
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Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See
Kauri.
Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy.
Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree
(Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum.
Jew's pitch, bitumen.
Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt.
Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal.
Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy
luster.
Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine,
yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.
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Amboyna wood
(gcide) | Amboyna wood \Am*boy"na wood\
A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It
is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna,
Borneo, etc.
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amboyna pine
(wn) | amboyna pine
n 1: native to the Moluccas and Philippines; a source of dammar
resin [syn: amboina pine, amboyna pine, {Agathis
dammara}, Agathis alba] |
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