Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STO'RAX, n. [L. styrax.]

A plant or tree; also, a resinous and odoriferous drug brought from Turkey, but generally adulterated. It imparts to water a yellow color, and has been deemed a resolvent. – Cyc. Storax is a solid resinous substance, either in red tears, or in large cakes, brittle, but soft to the touch, and of a reddish brown color. It is obtained from the Styrax officinalis, a tree which grows in the Levant. Liquid storax, is a liquid or semifluid resinous substance, whose origin is unknown. It is greenish, of an aromatic taste, and agreeable smell. – Thomson.