Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AL'BURN, or AL-BURN'UM
AL'BURN, or AL-BURN'UM, n. [L. alburnum, from albus, white.]
The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the wood. In America, it is popularly called the sap. This is annually acquiring hardness, and becoming wood. – Milne.
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