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Word Meanings - BEAR'S-FOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A species of hellebore , with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

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  • EMETIC
    Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n.
  • ACRIDLY
    In an acid manner.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • OFFENSIVE
    1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
  • ACRIDITY; ACRIDNESS
    The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
  • SMELLING
    1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • HELLEBOREIN
    A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.
  • DIGITATE
    To point out as with the finger. Robinson .
  • TASTE
    by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
  • EMETICAL
    Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • TASTER
    One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
  • ACRID
    1. Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts. 2. Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions. 3. Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which
  • SMELL
    smelen, smölen, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, 1. To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to
  • TASTELESS
    1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
  • CATHARTIC
    A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and
  • DIGITATE; DIGITATED
    Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.
  • SMELL-LESS
    Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
  • SMELL-FEAST
    1. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South. 2. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
  • SMELLER
    1. One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell. 2. The nose.
  • ANTEMETIC
    Tending to check vomiting. -- n.
  • IMPARIDIGITATE
    Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.
  • INOFFENSIVE
    1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
  • PARKLEAVES
    A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
  • ATTASTE
    To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
  • DISTASTEFUL
    1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
  • FORETASTE
    A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
  • ALETASTER
    See ALECONNER
  • CATASTERISM
    A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

 

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