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A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

d to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. Shak.

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

ium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.

deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.

Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.

(C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.

A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.

A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.

A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.

Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.

Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.