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1. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
2. abuse, v. View full entry c1430
...trans. To use (something) improperly, to misuse; to make a bad use of; to pervert; to take advantage of wrongly....
3. Acapulco, n. View full entry 1965
...In full Acapulco gold. A variety of marijuana grown in the Acapulco region (see quot. 1965)....
4. acetic, adj. View full entry 1788
...Of or relating to acetic acid; producing, containing, or tasting of acetic acid (or vinegar); relating to or containing an acetyl radical or group (—C(O)CH3)....
5. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
6. acid house, n. View full entry 1988
...A type of house music popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, characterized by a fast beat, a spare, hypnotic, synthesized sound, and a distinctive gurgling bass noise. Also: the lifestyle...
7. acronarcotic, adj. View full entry 1816
...Of a poison or its effect: both corrosive or irritating and narcotic....
8. ad, n.5 View full entry 1938
...A drug addict....
9. 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....
10. addicted, adj. and n. View full entry 1535
...Devoted or attached to a person, party, or cause; spec. †bound as, or as if, a servant (obs.). (In later use merging with sense A. 2.)...
11. addictedness, n. View full entry 1641
...The quality, state, or condition of being addicted; devotion, adherence, attachment, esp. of a compulsive kind; (also) an instance of this. Freq. with to. Cf. addiction...
12. addicting, adj. View full entry 1931
...= addictive1....
13. addiction, n. View full entry ?1532
...The state or condition of being dedicated or devoted to a thing, esp. an activity or occupation; adherence or attachment, esp. of an immoderate or compulsive kind....
14. addictive, adj. View full entry 1891
...Of a drug or other psychoactive substance: capable of creating addiction or dependence....
15. addictiveness, n. View full entry 1827
...The state or quality of being addictive; addictedness, addiction; an instance of this. Freq. with to....
16. afion, n. View full entry 1542
...Opium, esp. in a raw liquid form....
17. akathisia, n. View full entry 1903
...Inability to sit down or to remain seated, resulting from a subjective need or desire to move, frequently accompanied by sensations of muscular twitching, and often occurring as a side effect of...
18. 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,...
19. alligator, n.2 View full entry 1591
...Any of various broad-snouted crocodilians constituting the family Alligatoridae, found chiefly in the New World and including the caimans; (now) spec. either of two members of the genus...
20. amanitine, n. View full entry 1847
...The active narcotic principle of poisonous fungi....
