Frankincense is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRANKINCENSE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a sweet-smelling resin from Arabia, used as incense, aka olibanum
• an aromatic gum resin obtained from an African tree and burnt as incense.
• A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
• an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a fragrant gum resin from trees of a genus (Boswellia of the family Burseraceae) of Somalia and southern coastal Arabia that is an important incense resin and has been used in religious rites, perfumery, and embalming

Words related to FRANKINCENSE

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Words that contain FRANKINCENSE

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How to use FRANKINCENSE in a sentence

• Canhau is a great city, having plenty of frankincense, and carrying on a great trade in horses.
• After breakfast they had water to wash themselves, while their apartments were perfumed with frankincense and lime-juice.
• And the priest shall burn part of the beaten corn and part of that oil, with all the frankincense, for a remembrance.
• And make two rows of them, six on a row upon the pure table before the LORD, and put pure frankincense upon the rows.
• The first was the one who made a gift of gold for the child, while the second contributed frankincense, and the third myrrh.
• And living frankincense and myrrh Her lips that on his lips are pressed.
• The air was heavy with the perfume of frankincense which smouldered in a brass vessel set upon a tray.
• Here were regularly offered cereal-offerings, burnt-offerings, and frankincense.
• And out of every land they shall bring frankincense and gifts to the house of the great God.
• Her thoughts were like the fumes of frankincense Which from a golden censer forth doth rise.
• Whereof the priest shall burn for a memorial of the gift, part of the corn broken small and of the oil, and all the frankincense.
• The sea ran extremely blue and clear, and half the ship thought they smelled frankincense, brought on the winds which now were changeable.
• There will the ships of Israel come bowing over the waters with the riches of the world, and our wharves will be crowded with purple and gold and frankincense.
• Myrrh and Frankincense were reckoned by the Eastern nations amongst their most costly perfumes.
• The common frankincense is softer, more resinous, and possesses less value than the former.
• Leuconoe next, after mentioning the exposure of Mars and Venus, relates the history of Leucothoe, with whom Apollo fell in love, and afterwards turned into a rod of frankincense.
• So she put a bit of frankincense before him and asked him to tell what it was.
• The lore of the stars had taught them that he was a king, and they brought gifts worthy of royalty, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
• We seek a new-born King, Gold, frankincense to him we bring.
• The mountains to the north of Aden produce gums, frankincense, and coffee, which would soon find their way to so promising a market.
• So in all religious ceremonies frankincense and myrrh play a prominent part.
• By libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little frankincense.
• Next to the altar humbly kneel, and thence Give up thy soul in clouds of frankincense.
• Take of red roses, lapididis hoematis, white frankincense, of each half an ounce.
• From time immemorial Egypt had imported frankincense from the southern coasts of the Arabian peninsula, and the precious spices had been carried by merchants to the far north.
• In these chambers was also stored the frankincense, of which a large quantity was used every day, for a handful of it was burnt on the altar of incense both morning and night.
• Hojeda found mastick, aloes, sandal, ginger, frankincense, and some trees resembling cinnamon in taste and smell, and abundance of cotton.
• BOSWELLIA THURIFERA of Colebrooke, whose description led to a general belief that this tree produced the Frankincense of commerce.
• Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, their mystic meaning.
• Myrrh and frankincense are frequently mentioned together.

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