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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sweet spice used by the ancient Jews in making incense.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the sweet spices which composed the holy incense of the ancient Jews.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

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  • noun One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English stacten, myrrh resin, from Latin stactē, from Greek staktē, from feminine of staktos, oozing, from stazein, stag-, to ooze.]

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Latin, from Ancient Greek στακτή (staktē, "oil of myrrh") from στακτός (staktos, "oozing out in drops").

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