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Opye :: Opye (n.) Opium.

Dover's Powder :: Dover's Powder () A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic..

Laudanum :: Laudanum (n.) Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes..

Opianine :: Opianine (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

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

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

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

Intoxicant :: Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants..

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

Pelopium :: Pelopium (n.) A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium..

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

Nepenthe :: Nepenthe (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting..

Entropium :: Entropium (n.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

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

Meconium :: Meconium (n.) Opium.

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..

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..

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

Toxicant :: Toxicant (n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant..

Denarcotize :: Denarcotize (v. t.) To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium..

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