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Balmy   /bˈɑmi/   Listen
adjective
Balmy  adj.  
1.
Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild; as, balmy weather. "The balmy breeze." "Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!"
2.
Producing balm. "The balmy tree."
3.
Highly eccentric or crazy. (Informal)
Synonyms: batty.
Synonyms: Fragrant; sweet-scented; odorous; spicy; refreshing; soothing.





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"Balmy" Quotes from Famous Books



... fifth hymn, 'Ad Incensum Lucernae,' is glorious with passionate colour and felicitous cadence, be he describing with precious solicitude for Christian archaeology the different means of artistic lighting, flambeaux, candles, lamps, or dreaming with all the rapture of a southern dream of the balmy ...
— A Mere Accident • George Moore
... that very place he had first ventured to declare his love to Fanny. There she heard and frowned not; there, where nature's choicest sweets were exhaling, he had first pressed her to his heart, and thought the balmy sweetness of her lips beyond them all. He hurried forward in the enthusiasm the recollection recalled, to enter that spot consecrated in his memory; but on arriving at the door, he suddenly stopped, for he saw Fanny within. She was plucking a geranium—the ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... passed, and it seemed very long. All of them were more or less wet because of the splashing waves; but as the air was balmy, they cared little for such a thing as that, if only the ...
— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy
... at midsummer, is one of those balmy and soothing periods of the day that affect the mind as well as the body. Everywhere we have the mellow and advancing light that precedes the appearance of the sun—the shifting hues of the sky—that pearly softness that seems to have been invented to make us love the works ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... one.' I says, 'All right,' I squatted every day before them bronze or wooden individuals, and remarked to each one some fifty times a day, 'All things are one,' till it seemed to me every one of 'em was thinking that identical thing too, and every one of 'em had the same identical and balmy smile over it. 'Take it on the whole,' I says, 'that's a singular coincidence, ain't it?' After three or four weeks I says, 'All things are one,' and felt about it the same way as they looked. There was no getting away from the amiableness ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton


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