Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stacte"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Stacte
(Heb. nataph), one of the components of the perfume which was
offered on the golden altar (Ex. 30:34; R.V. marg.,
"opobalsamum"). The Hebrew word is from a root meaning "to
distil," and it has been by some interpreted as distilled myrrh.
Others regard it as the gum of the storax tree, or rather shrub,
the Styrax officinale. "The Syrians value this gum highly, and
use it medicinally as an emulcent in pectoral complaints, and
also in perfumery."
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stacte \Stac"te\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, strictly fem. of ? cozing
out in drops, fr. ? to drop.]
One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the
preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form
of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax. --Ex. xxx. 34.
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