ballottement (balotment)

[F., a to ing, ballow1t, a. [Appar. The ballow nag outstrips the winds in chase. Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 40. (N. E. D.) ballow2 (bal'ō), n. [Etym. unknown.] Naut ., deep water inside a shoal or bar. Smyth , Sailor's Word-Book. ( N. E. D. ) eral aromatic plants of the natural order Labi atæ, particularly plants of the genus Meli a. The garden or lemon-balm, bee-balm, or balm-mint is M. officinal is. Plants of other genera so named are the bastard balm, Melittis meli ophyllum the bee-balm of American gardens, Monarda didyma; the horse-balm, Col linsonia Can a dens is; the field-balm, Nepeta Cataria; the Molucca balım, Moluccella lævis; and the sweet balm, sometimes called balm of Gilead, Dracocephalum Canariense. Abraham's-balm, an old name for an Italian willow. Balm of Gilead. ( a ) Balm or balsam of Mecca, or of Syria, an oleo-resin, once of great repute and still esteemed in the East for its fragrance and medicinal properties. Mixed with oil, it constitutes the chrism of the Roman Catholic Church. It is the product of a tree or shrub, Commi phora ( Balsa mod end ron ) Opobalsamum , which also yields myrrh. It is now produced, so far as is known, only in Arabia. (b) A fragrant resin from South America. See carauna. (c) In North America, the balsam-poplar, Pop ulus balsam if era , the buds of which are coated in spring 2. Producing balm: as, "the balmy suaging; refreshing. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh. Shak., Sonnets, cvii. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep. Young , Night Thoughts, v. 1. 4. Of healing virtue; healing: as, balmy medicines. balnea, n. Plural of balneum. balnealt (bal'ne-al), a. [L. balneum, a (warm) bath (see balneum ), + -al. The L. adj. is bal near is or bal near i us.] Of or pertaining to a bath: as, " balneal heat," Howell, Letters, I. vi. 35.