BASIL'ICON, noun s as z. [Gr.royal.]
An ointment. This name is given to several compositions in ancient medical writers. At present it is confined to three officinal ointments, distinguished into black, yellow and green basilicon
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.