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ice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

In a manner to promote. [R.]

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.

in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation. A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences. Swift.

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.

To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of. We must develop our own resources to the utmost. Jowett (Thucyd).

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

lity; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.…

One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.