Word Meanings - DOVERSPOWDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

• Uniterable
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated.
• Nitrated
  Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.
• Sugarplum
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• Unition
  The act of uniting, or the state of being united; junction.
• Prescription
  The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
• Sulphate
  A salt of sulphuric acid.
• Unitive
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union.
• Original
  Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Unitively
  In a unitive manner.
• Compound
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• Originalist
  One who is original.
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Unitable
  Capable of union by growth or otherwise.
• Unitized
  of Unitize

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