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icine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

rt which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

The bark of several trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

Any. [Obs.] "Without all remedy." Shak.

A remedy which promotes such granulation.

A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. -- a.

A remedy against gout.

A remedy for asthma.

A remedy to check or allay vomiting.

A remedy nightmare. Dunglison.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

An anticatarrhal remedy.

A remedy for such a fever.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

A remedy for hemorrhage.

A remedy for hydrophobia.