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andrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.

A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant. Wiseman.

r, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

rranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

hich stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears c…

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

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.

(Med.) A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

(Med.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore. Wiseman.

A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.

That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs. His rare skill in diagnostics. Macaulay.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

An electuary compounded of four medicines.

ging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.

A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple.

That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer. That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.

which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dill-seed. Dr. Prior.