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A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and repecussive medicines." Bacon.

Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] Wiseman. -- Re*strict"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*strict"ive*ness, n.

Quality or state of being restringent; astringency. [Obs.] Sir W. Petty.

The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. [Written also ratany.] Savanilla rhatany, the root of Krameria Ixina, a native of New Granada.

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

hich consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning.

A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

The quality or state of being stringent.

and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.

Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

eding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.] Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.

Styptic; astringent.

partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf- , sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus-…

a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid.

etyl chloride or acetic anhydride or ordinary tannic acid. It is used as an intestinal astringent, and locally in rhinitis and pharyngitis.

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

Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.

A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.