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as, rough measures or actions. On the rough edge of battle. Milton. A quicker and rougher remedy. Clarendon. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. Locke.

he just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils which exist. Brande & C.

A soothing remedy or antidote. Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores. Milton. Salve bug (Zoöl.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.

One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [Obs.]

Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

officinalis) growing along the seacoast of Northern Europe and in arctic regions. It is a remedy for the scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species of plants.

A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

table was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. Sir W. Temple.

t Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.

Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy. Dryden. Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men. South. Sovereign state, a state which administers its own government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power.…

A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3. His parents were weak enough to believe that the royal touch was a specific for this malady. Macaulay.

To go; to fare. [Obs.] To warn him now he is too farre sped. Remedy of Love.

o things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. "Neat and spruce array." Remedy of Love.

uced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.

a remedy used as a substitute for another. In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. Walpole.

ase. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by producing to know more. Bacon. From her hand I could suspect no ill. Milton.

A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.

A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

A remedy to expel tapeworms.

time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.