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

Close-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 isle of St Domingo, Guadalupe, &c. of a sharp biting taste like pepper. Some use it instead of nutmeg; and in medicine it is esteemed a stomachic and anticorbutic. See CANELLA.