repr. L. cedr-us cedar, forming terms of chemistry, etc. Cedrene, a liquid hydrocarbon (C32 H21) found in the resin of the cedar of Lebanon. † Cedria, a name applied sometimes to the oil of cedar, sometimes to the pitch or resin, but properly to the crude tears of the cedar. (Syd. Soc. Lex.) Cedriret, a product obtained by Reichenbach from the tar of beechwood, said to crystallize in fine needles. Cedrium = cedria.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 926. Thai thurle a nutte, & stuffe it so withinne With brymstoon, chaf, & cedria.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 127. Cedria, the liquor of Cedar swageth toothach being put therein.
1847. Craig, Cedriret crystallises into a kind of net-work, composed of red crystals.
1708–15. Kersey, Cedrium.
