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1. acronarcotic, adj. View full entry 1816
...Of a poison or its effect: both corrosive or irritating and narcotic....
2. addict, n. View full entry 1899
...A person affected by an addiction to a drug or other psychoactive substance. Freq. with distinguishing word denoting the addictive substance....
3. addictive, adj. View full entry 1891
...Of a drug or other psychoactive substance: capable of creating addiction or dependence....
4. addictiveness, n. View full entry 1827
...The state or quality of being addictive; addictedness, addiction; an instance of this. Freq. with to....
5. alkaloid, n. and adj. View full entry 1824
...A naturally occurring organic compound having alkaline or basic properties; (now chiefly) spec. any of a numerous class of complex nitrogenous compounds of plant origin having marked physiological, sometimes toxic,...
6. amanitine, n. View full entry 1847
...The active narcotic principle of poisonous fungi....
7. amyl, n.2 View full entry 1850
...The monatomic alcohol radical of the pentacarbon series C5H11, also called pentyl or quintyl....
8. black drop, n. View full entry 1801
...Med. In sing. or (rare) pl. A dark-coloured liquid medicine composed of opium in vinegar or verjuice with various spices. Now hist....
9. chandoo | chandu, n. View full entry 1847
...A preparation of opium used in China for smoking....
10. Charley | Charlie, n. View full entry 1819
...The name formerly given to a night-watchman....
11. chlorodyne, n. View full entry 1863
...A drug, popular as a narcotic and anodyne, composed of chloroform, morphia, tincture of Indian hemp, prussic acid, and other substances....
12. ˈchurrus, n. View full entry 1860
...The resinous exudation of the hemp-plant (Cannabis indica), used in India as an intoxicating drug....
13. cocaine, n. View full entry 1874
...An important alkaloid obtained from the leaves and young twigs of the coca plant, valuable as a local anæsthesiant, and also used as a stimulant....
14. codamine, n. View full entry 1871
...A crystalline phenolic alkaloid, C20H25NO4, present in opium in small quantities....
15. codeine, n. View full entry 1838
...A white crystalline alkaloid (C18H21NO3) contained in opium, and used as a hypnotic; discovered and named in 1832 by Robiquet of Paris....
16. cryptopine, n. View full entry 1870
...A crystalline alkaloid present in opium and in certain plants of the family Fumariaceae....
17. deiamba, n. View full entry 1851
...Congo tobacco; = hemp4....
18. deliriant, adj. and n. View full entry 1883
19. delirifacient, adj. and n. View full entry 1875
...Causing or producing delirium....
20. dope, n. View full entry 18..
...Any thick liquid or semi-fluid used as an article of food, or as a lubricant. U.S....
