CEDRIA, a resinous liquor issuing from the great cedar tree, or cedar of Lebanon. The word is also written cedrium, and cedrinum.—Cedria, when good, yields a strong smell, is transparent, and of a thick fatty consistence; so that in pouring it out it does not fall too fast or freely, but equally, drop by drop. It is possessed of two opposite qualities, viz. to preserve dead bodies by its drying and consuming superfluous moisture without damaging the solid parts, and to putrefy the soft and tender parts of living bodies without exciting any pain. The cedria is properly the tear of the cedar; some call it the gum, others the pitch, of the cedar. The same denomination is also given to the cedrelæon, or oil of the cedars, which differs little from the resin, except that it is of a thinner consistence.