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, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Bacon. Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain. I. Watts.

ucing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.

A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

n ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy.

An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc. [Obsoles.] Wiseman.

Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1. We kill the viper, and make treacle of him. Jer. Taylor.

rip." Locke. A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. South. Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure. Dryden. What dost t…

To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. Shak. To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries. Swift.

A vulnerary remedy.

hat is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law. Burrill.

terica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Called also conessine, and neriine.