Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COL'O-PHO-NY
COL'O-PHON-ITECOL-O-QUINT'I-DA
COL'O-PHO-NY, n.
In pharmacy, black resin or turpentine boiled in water and dried; or the residuum, after distillation of the ethereal oil of turpentine, being further urged by a more intense and long continued fire. It is so named from Colophon in Ionia, whence the best was formerly brought. – Nicholson. Encyc.
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