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A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.

Opium. [Obs.]

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc. -- n.

loth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.

An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia.

ed by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe.

An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Parr.

Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Pander. "Seized by the pandar of Appius." Macaulay.

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.

ithin the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.

with the infundibulum of the brain; the hypophysis. -- Pituitary fossa (Anat.), the ephippium.