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Intoxicant :: Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants..

Soporific :: Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium..

Morphine :: 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..

Pelopium :: Pelopium (n.) A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium..

Laudanum :: Laudanum (n.) Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes..

Chlorodyne :: Chlorodyne (n.) A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc..

Meconinic :: Meconinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine..

Dormitive :: Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium..

Meconin :: Meconin (n.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid..

Opianine :: Opianine (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

Opye :: Opye (n.) Opium.

Meconidine :: Meconidine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed..

Mawseed :: Mawseed (n.) The seed of the opium poppy.

Toxicomania :: Toxicomania (n.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium..

Codeine :: Codeine (n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia..

Toxicant :: Toxicant (n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant..

Nepenthe :: Nepenthe (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting..

Laudanine :: Laudanine (n.) A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium..

Meconium :: Meconium (n.) Opium.

Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic..

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