Word Meanings - CHANDOO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• SMOKEHOUSE
  A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• SMOKESTACK
  A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
• SMOKE BALL
  See PUFFBALL
• CHINALDINE
  See QUINALDINE
• OPIUM
  The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. Note: Opium is obtained from incisions made in the capsules of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision. It is imported into Europe and America chiefly from the Levant,
• SMOKINESS
  The quality or state of being smoky.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• SMOKEJACK
  A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
• INDIADEM
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• EXTRACTIVE
  1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan. 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting
• EXTRACTIFORM
  Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.
• SMOKING
  from Smoke. Smoking bean , the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.
• SMOKY
  1. Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires. 2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog. "Unlustrous as the smoky light." Shak. 3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling
• TRICHINA
  A small, slender nematoid worm which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• ECHINATE; ECHINATED
  Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
• PELOPIUM
  A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• BESMOKE
  1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
• EUROPIUM
  A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; at. wt., 152.0.
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• MACHINATOR
  One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.
• MACHINAL
  Of or pertaining to machines.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.