Word Meanings - ATROPINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

• WHITEMUSTARD
  A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• Dilatoriness
  The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
• Powerless
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
• Thorntail
  A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.
• White-ear
  The wheatear.
• Whiten
  To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
• Whitewashing
  of Whitewash
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• THORNHEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm (Zoöl.), any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• Daturine
  Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
• WHITEPERSON
  A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white per
• Dilatory
  Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
• Thorny
  Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.

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