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CINNAMON-TREE

Volume 2 · 81 words · 1771 Edition

in botany. See Laurus.

Cinnamon-water is made by distilling the bark first infused in spirit of wine, brandy, or white-wine.

Clove-Cinnamon is the bark of a tree growing in Brazil, which is often substituted for real cloves.

White Cinnamon, called also Winter's bark, is the bark of a tree frequent in the islands of St Domingo, Guadalupe, &c., of a sharp biting taste like pepper. Some use it instead of nutmeg; and in medicinae it is esteemed a stomachic and antiscorbutic.