- A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having
star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is
the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor. - The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees
by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
- chasing - Coming after - In hot pursuit - of Follow - One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. - Vocation; business; profession. - Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was
held on the following day.
- Bigness - Height of a wave - State of being ample; extent of surface or space;
largeness of dimensions; size. - Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance;
fullness. - Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. - Of extent of means or resources. - The arc of the horizon between the true east or west
point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting.
At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it
is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern,
when north or south of the equator.