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up with Samian wine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.

A sarcotic medicine. [R.]

The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.

duces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc.

olor, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic.

e, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor.

(C. acutifolia. C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

autious; wary; suspicious. I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines. Boyle. Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors. Sir H. Wotton. To fight shy. See under Fight, v. i.

Mere; not other than; being only. A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin. Shak.

e or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.

stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.

A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble. U. S. Disp. Fehling's solution (Chem.), a standardized solution of cupric hydrate in sodium potassium tartrate, used as a means of determining the reducing power of certain sugars and sirups by the amount of red cuprou…

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift. --- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.

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

A medicine or substance which produces absorption.

A medicine for spasm.

A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. Coleridge. Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one species from every ot…

d-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.