Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Promoting or inducing nasal discharge.
- noun A medication that promotes or induces such discharge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, affecting the nose, or designed to be snuffed into the nose; occasioning discharges from the nose.
- noun A medicine to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine, rare Causing an
increase inmucus within thenose , and hence causing one tosneeze . - noun medicine, uncommon A
medicine applied inside the nose to increase the production ofmucus , and hencesneezing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing nasal discharge
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The dry leaves are powdered and used as an errhine, for the cure of headache.
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872
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The dry leaves are powdered and used as an errhine, for the cure of headache.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels.
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The leaves, dried and powdered, have powerful errhine properties.
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The powder is an active errhine, and the leaves have some celebrity in domestic practice, as being antispasmodic, antiscorbutic, and astringent.
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The brown powder attached to the foot-stalks possesses considerable power as an errhine.
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Euphorbium or cayan pepper mixed with sugar, and used with caution as an errhine.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
biocon commented on the word errhine
One of the examples for the word "errhine" is an extremely long array of words that do not form sentences.
August 27, 2011
bilby commented on the word errhine
To err is human; to errhine is to leave our dear Jade Foreskin, whore-forsaken, full of cud and these red Brazilian vegetables, reflecting on his fortyninethousand adharmic elements.
August 27, 2011
bilby commented on the word errhine
Biocon, it is in fact a valid example, being an excerpt from the novel 'Name' by Toadex Hobogrammaton.
August 27, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word errhine
(noun) - A medicine which when applied to the mucous membrane of the nose increases the natural secretions and produces sneezing. Having the action of an errhine. --Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1897
April 23, 2018