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Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.

with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule. California poppy (Bot.), any yellow-flowered plant of the genus Eschscholtzia. -- Corn poppy. See under Cor…

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

e pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

some medicinal substance in wine; as: vina medicata, medicated wines; vinum opii, wine of opium.

lus alba) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. -- White poppy (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See Poppy. -- White powder, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. Beau. & Fl. -- White precipitate. (Old…

smaller than beer measure. -- Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines. -- Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; -- also Sydenham's laudanum. -- Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.…