Word Meanings - OFFICINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. Note: This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are

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Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. Note: This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are not necessarily official. See Official, a., (more info) 1. Used in a shop, or belonging to it. Johnson.

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• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• OFFICINAL
  Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. Note: This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• STOCKADE
  A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
• STOCKY
  1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
• STOCK-STILL
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
• STRICTURED
  Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• BLUESTOCKINGISM
  The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• ESPECIALNESS
  The state of being especial.
• CONSTRICTION
  1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.