Word Meanings - LOBELINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ALKALOID
  An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. Note: Alcaloids all contain nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and many of them also contain oxygen. They include many
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• TOBACCONING
  Smoking tobacco. "Tobacconing is but a smoky play." Sylvester.
• NARCOTICAL
  Narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.
• TOBACCONIST
  1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco. 2. A smoker of tobacco. Sylvester.
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• NARCOTIC
  A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The
• YELLOWBILL
  The American scoter.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• YELLOWWOOD
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash ; the Australian Flindersia
• ALKALOID; ALKALOIDAL
  Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• SUBNARCOTIC
  Moderately narcotic.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• 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.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.