See balm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]",
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"ref": "1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51:",
"text": "BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Something soothing."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) Something soothing."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"figuratively",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis"
],
"links": [
[
"lemon balm",
"lemon balm"
],
[
"Melissa officinalis",
"Melissa officinalis#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horsebalm."
],
"links": [
[
"citrus",
"citrus"
],
[
"bee balm",
"bee balm"
],
[
"horsebalm",
"horsebalm"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/bɑːm/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑlm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔlm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bæm/",
"tags": [
"US",
"obsolete"
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},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːm"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːlm"
},
{
"homophone": "bomb"
},
{
"homophone": "BOM (for many speakers with the father-bother merger)"
}
],
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{
"sense": "aromatic resin",
"word": "balsam"
},
{
"sense": "plant or tree",
"word": "balsam"
},
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"sense": "soothing oil or lotion",
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{
"sense": "something soothing",
"word": "balsam"
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "plant of the genus Melissa",
"word": "melissa"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "plant of the genus Melissa",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "melisa"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "matočina",
"sense": "plant of the genus Melissa",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "маточина"
}
],
"word": "balm"
}
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"en:Menthinae subtribe plants",
"en:Mint family plants",
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"3": "bawme"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "xno",
"3": "-"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
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},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "balsamum"
},
"expansion": "Latin balsamum",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "βάλσαμον"
},
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},
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"2": "balsam",
"3": "desman"
},
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}
],
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"form": "balms",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
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"form": "balming",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
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"past"
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"pos": "verb",
"related": [
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"word": "lotion"
},
{
"word": "ointment"
},
{
"word": "unguent"
}
],
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"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
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{
"ref": "c. 1607–1608, William Shakespeare, George] [Wilkins, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act 3, scene 2, lines 63–64:",
"text": "Shrouded in cloth of state, balmed and entreasured / With full bags of spices!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal."
],
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[
"anoint",
"anoint"
],
[
"medicinal",
"medicinal"
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],
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"(transitive, archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal."
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 6, line 96:",
"text": "This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To soothe; to mitigate."
],
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[
"soothe",
"soothe"
],
[
"mitigate",
"mitigate"
]
],
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"(transitive, figurative) To soothe; to mitigate."
],
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"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/bɑːm/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑlm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔlm/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bæm/",
"tags": [
"US",
"obsolete"
]
},
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{
"rhymes": "-ɑːm"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːlm"
},
{
"homophone": "bomb"
},
{
"homophone": "BOM (for many speakers with the father-bother merger)"
}
],
"word": "balm"
}
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