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A remedy for hypochondria.

A remedy for hysteria.

A remedy for jaundice.

A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.

A remedy against mephitic gases. Dunglison.

An antinephritic remedy.

A remedy for toothache.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

An antipsoric remedy.

A remedy for scurvy.

A remedy against excessive salivation.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

tion caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable. A tale extremely apropos. Pope.

han thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham.

value or form may at will be given, so that the solution may be made to meet special requirements. -- Arbitrary quantity (Math.), one to which any value can be assigned at pleasure.

A secret remedy; an elixir. Dunglison.

Of supreme chemical powers. [R.] "The archchemic sun." Milton.