camphire

/ ˈkæmfaɪə /

noun

We took shipping at the first port we reached, and touched at the isle of Roha, where the trees grow that yield camphire.

This island produces lead mines, Indian canes, and excellent camphire.

Fifty thousand drachms of the best wood of aloes, with thirty grains of camphire as big as pistachios.

It flameth white and candent like Camphire, but dissolveth not in aqua fortis, like it.

Thus Camphire of a white substance, by its fuligo affordeth a deep black.

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