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.

• Sugarplum
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• Uniterable
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated.
• Nitrated
  Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.
• Prescription
  The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
• Unition
  The act of uniting, or the state of being united; junction.
• 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.
• Sulphate
  A salt of sulphuric acid.
• Unitive
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union.
• Originalist
  One who is original.
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Unitively
  In a unitive manner.
• Compound
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• Originality
  The quality or state of being original.
• Statesman
  A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

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