camphine

English

Etymology

camphor + -ine

Noun

camphine (countable and uncountable, plural camphines)

  1. (historical) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps and as a solvent in varnishes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for camphine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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