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Codeine :: Codeine (n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia..

Mawseed :: Mawseed (n.) The seed of the opium poppy.

Opie :: Opie (n.) Opium.

Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic..

Ectropium :: Ectropium (n.) Same as Ectropion.

Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium..

Opium :: Opium (n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy..

Gnoscopine :: Gnoscopine (n.) An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

Soporific :: Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium..

Meconic :: Meconic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

Meconin :: Meconin (n.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid..

Narcotine :: Narcotine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia..

Chest :: Chest (n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains..

Opye :: Opye (n.) Opium.

Eversion :: Eversion (n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium..

Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) 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 best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..

Lanthopine :: Lanthopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

Toxicomania :: Toxicomania (n.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium..

Protopine :: Protopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

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