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The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants. Dr. H. Hartshorne.

e act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.

Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald. A tonsured head in middle age forlorn. Tennyson.

ater, a compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.…