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- Antidote - n. - 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.
- Antidote - n. - Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.
- Antidote - v. t. - To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.
- Antidote - v. t. - To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
- Mithridate - n. - An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor.
- Alexipharmic - n. - An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.
- Bezoar - n. - A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
- Orvietan - n. - A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.
- Antidote - n. - 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.
- Guaco - n. - A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites.