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somniferous
somniferous, a. (sɒmˈnɪfərəs) [f. L. somnifer (f. somni- somni- + -ferre to bring) + -ous. Cf. F. somnifère, Sp. and Pg. somnifero, It. sonnifero.] 1. Inducing sleep; soporific.1602 Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 255 Twas I that ministred to her chaste bloud, A true somniferous potion, which did steal...
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somnoriferous
† somnoˈriferous, a. Obs. [Erroneous form of somniferous, after soporiferous.] Soporific.1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xv. (1639) 24 Water wherein..poppy seed hath been sodden, or some somnoriferous compound. Ibid. ii. x. 88 Sirupes of Poppy, and other somnoriferous medicines. So somnoˈrific a.1...
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Donald Othmer
Othmermeter: A simple device for measuring the somniferous power of a lecturer's speech pattern
Othmer Still: A laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium
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somnific
somnific, a. (sɒmˈnɪfɪk) [ad. L. somnificus: see somni- and -fic.] Causing sleep; somniferous.1721 Bailey, Somnifick, causing sleep. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Indies I. xxiii. 278 Others again take somnifick Medicines, and stand by the Pile till they fall on it while asleep. 1775 S. J. Pratt Libe...
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Murder of Helena Jubany
Intrigued, she commissioned an analysis in a laboratory in Sabadell, where the juice was found to contain benzodiazepine, a somniferous, anxiolytic drug she was taken to the roof of the same building, and from there she was thrown off between three and five o'clock in the morning of 2 December, with a somniferous
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somni-
somni- combining form of L. somnus sleep, occurring in a number of Latin compounds and English adaptations or imitations of these, as somnifer somniferous, somnificus somnific, etc. (see below).
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Legal opium production in India
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferous) plant is the source of opium gum which contains four indispensable alkaloids that are Opium, Morphine, Codeine and Heroin
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buzzard
▪ I. buzzard, n.1 (ˈbʌzəd) Forms: 3 busard, 4–6 bosarde, 5 bosard, buserde, (busherde), busserd, 5–7 bussard, 6 busarde, bussarde, (bousarde, basert), buzarde, buzzarde, 6–7 buzard, 7 busard, 7– buzzard, (Sc. 6 bissart, 8 bizzard, 9 buzzart, dial. buzzert). [a. OF. busart = Pr. buzart; cf. the synon...
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Natural product
Another notable example is opium is extracted from the latex from Papaver somniferous (a flowering poppy plant).
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Sabbat
‖ Sabbat (saba) In 7–8 sabat. [Fr.; a special application of sabbat Sabbath.] A ‘witches' sabbath’; see Sabbath 3. Also attrib., and fig.1652 J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox vii. 153 In this Desart corner, which..seemeth onely fit for a Sabat or Assembly of Sorcerers. 1658 tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Ch...
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Sleeping Murder
Robert Barnard: "Slightly somniferous mystery, written in the 'forties but published after Christie's death.
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sleepy
sleepy, a. (ˈsliːpɪ) Forms: 3–4 slepi, 4–6 slepy, 5–6 slepie, 6 sleapie, 6–7 sleepie, 6– sleepy. [f. sleep n. + -y. Cf. OE. unslǽpiᵹ sleepless, and NFris. slîpig, MDu., MLG. slapich (Du. dial. slapig, slepig), OHG. slâfag, -eg (MHG. slâfec, -ic, obs. G. schlafig, schläfig).] 1. a. Inclined to sleep;...
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有哪些冷门但优美的英语单词?
,c.f. recognition) peninsula n.半岛;(拉丁语insula 岛,c.f. insulin胰岛素,insulator绝缘体) serendipity n.意外获得新发现(的能力);机缘巧合;(源自Serendip斯里兰卡) somniferous
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