The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.
A light purple or violet colour.
Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.
A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).
An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.
A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
Light purple or violet.
Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.
A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
To stifle or smother with smoke.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).