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An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.

• Carbonated
  Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
• Scentful
  Full of scent or odor; odorous.
• Scentingly
  By scent.
• Faintness
  The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
• Scentless
  Having no scent.
• Headache
  Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
• AMMONIACAMMONIACAL
  Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called
• AMMONIACGUMAMMONIAC
  The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, f
• Ammoniacal
  Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• AMMONIACALFERMENTATION
  Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.
• Ammoniated
  Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• AROMATICAROMATICAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong- scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam. Aromatic compound (Chem.), one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camp
• Oftentide
  Frequently; often.
• Aromatical
  Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam.

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