Word Meanings - STRYCHNINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

• Whiterump
  The American black-tailed godwit.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Whitewing
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
• Employing
  of Employ
• WHITEFOOT
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Havenage
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• WHITEWATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• Obtainer
  One who obtains.
• Stimulant
  Serving to stimulate.
• Whiteback
  The canvasback.
• Bitterness
  The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
• Whiteflaw
  A whitlow.
• Whites
  Leucorrh/a.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Whitewood
  The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
• Employ
  To inclose; to infold.
• WHITEFRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.

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