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Kino

noun
1.
A gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning.  Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum.
2.
East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning.  Synonym: Pterocarpus marsupium.



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"Kino" Quotes from Famous Books



... be taken in female complaints, arising from excessive evacuations. Fifteen grains of powdered alum, and five grains of gum kino, made into a bolus with a little syrup, and given every four or five hours till ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... tablet of the gate called Ko-kamon of the Emperor's palace at Kyoto. Now there was a man, dwelling near that gate, whose name was Kino Momoye; and he ridiculed the characters which Kobodaishi had made, and pointed to one of them, saying: 'Why, it looks like a swaggering wrestler!' But the same night Momoye dreamed that a wrestler had come to his bedside and leaped upon ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... Kino, (so called by the natives), a branch and fruit of the original gum kino tree and a paper of the real gum; none of this gum is at present exported from Gambia, though it might be collected ...
— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park

... on the Saturday night when I went back to the grave, solemn house. There was no one dead in it now. It was the first time that I had approached it without the abyss of shadow under its roof. A little elasticity came back to me. Kino came out to give his welcome: we had become ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various

... prickly ash berries (or double as much bark of the root), cloves, and cinnamon bark, of each two ounces; gum camphor and gum myrrh, of each one ounce; gum kino, half an ounce. Reduce all to a coarse powder and add to one quart of best French brandy. Let it stand ten days or two weeks to digest, shaking the bottle two or three times a day to keep the ingredients from ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous



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