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A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. [Archaic]

Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is esti…

Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine. -- n.

A German wine made near Rüdesheim, on the Rhine.

A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs. Marlowe. Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems And studs of pearl. Milton.

A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, or Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.

A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbæna, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.