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strychnine


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Strychnine  \Strych"nine\,  n.  [L.  strychnos  a  kind  of  nightshade, 
  Gr  ?:  cf  F.  strychnine.]  (Chem.) 
  A  very  poisonous  alkaloid  resembling  brucine,  obtained  from 
  various  species  of  plants,  especially  from  species  of 
  {Loganiace[ae]},  as  from  the  seeds  of  the  St  Ignatius  bean 
  ({Strychnos  Ignatia})  and  from  nux  vomica.  It  is  obtained  as 
  a  white  crystalline  substance,  having  a  very  bitter  acrid 
  taste,  and  is  employed  in  medicine  (chiefly  in  the  form  of 
  the  sulphate)  as  a  powerful  neurotic  stimulant.  Called  also 
  {strychnia},  and  formerly  {strychnina}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  strychnine 
  n  :  an  alkaloid  poison  extracted  chiefly  from  nux  vomica; 
  formerly  used  as  a  stimulant 




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