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American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.

es of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]

the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

d in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing. [Race-track Slang]

he elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.

produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

aiah (xxviii. 25). -- Fennel water (Med.), the distilled water of fennel seed. It is stimulant and carminative. -- Giant fennel (Ferula communis), has stems full of pith, which, it is said, were used to carry fire, first, by Prometheus. -- Hog's fennel, a European plant (Peucedanum officinale) looking something like…

confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsederate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogous." Thomson. To put flippant scorn to the blush. I. Taylor. A sort of flippant, vain discourse. Burke.

treatment of the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to them in war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and this condition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, and the ambulance corps. Great Britain signed the convention in 1865. -- Geneva cross (Mil.), a red Greek cross on a white…

monly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum). [This word is variously corrupted into gouland, gools, gowan, etc.]

See Koulan.

A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a huff." W. Irving.

The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.

Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n.

Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.

That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant. E. Darwin.

A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant. [R.] Jervas.

int to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.

The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.