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Narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.

hite crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia.

Pertaining to narcotine.

Narcosis; the state of being narcotized. G. Eliot.

To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.

Tobacco. [R.] B. Jonson.

A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

Nicotinic.

A complex, oily, nitrogenous base, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.

An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. Ure.

Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; -- used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of tobacco.

The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument. [Written also onkotomy.] Dunglison.

See Persicot.

A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.

One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

A picture gallery.

A cross between the plum and apricot.