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n self-satistaction. -- Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Æthusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. -- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] -- To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have er…

he Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inc…

An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.

Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart.

d the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding.

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

The inspissated juice of the common lettuce, sometimes used as a substitute for opium.

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

A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.

Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

is L. Canadensis. Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb. -- Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium. -- Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.

Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones. Marsupial frog. (Zoöl.) See Nototrema.

emale generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

Same as Marsupium.

An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks. Dunglison.

The seed of the opium poppy.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.