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- Narcotic - a. - Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
- Narcotic - n. - A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.
- Narcotical - a. - Narcotic.
- Cocculus Indicus - n. - The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
- Churrus - n. - A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.
- Mandragorite - n. - One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
- Ganja - n. - The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.
- Intoxicate - v. t. - To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.
- Arnica - n. - A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.
- Chelerythrine - n. - An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.
- Lobeline - n. - A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
- Oxalethyline - n. - A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.
- Bugleweed - n. - A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.
- Morphine - n. - A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
- Cannabin - n. - A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.
- Sparteine - n. - A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.
- Wormwood - n. - A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
- Bhang - n. - An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.
- Chess - n. - A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
- Drug - v. t. - To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
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- G3488 Νάρκισσος - 3488 Νάρκισσος - ΝΆΡΚΙΣΣΟΣ - - Nárkissos - nar'-kis-sos - a flower of the same name, from (stupefaction, as a "narcotic"); Narcissus, a Roman:--Narcissus. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G4669 σμυρνίζω - 4669 σμυρνίζω - ΣΜΥΡΝΊΖΩ - - smyrnízō - smoor-nid'-zo - from Σμύρνα; to tincture with myrrh, i.e. embitter (as a narcotic):--mingle with myrrh. - Verb - greek