Crossword clues for nostrums
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nostrum \Nos"trum\ (-tr[u^]m), n.; pl. Nostrums (-tr[u^]mz).
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
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Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks.
--Brougham. Any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of nostrum English)
Usage examples of "nostrums".
None of those ridiculous old-wife nostrums of yours, signora, could have prevented the fomites and miasms of corruption from getting into the wounds.
Later, she got up to use the toilet and the spare toothbrush in the nostrums cabinet.
Clothes, food, jewelry, nostrums (the microimps in the spellchecker seemed dubious a few times, but not dubious enough to make me stop anybody), ethernet receiver imp modules (I wondered how many of those were stolen), toys both mechanical and sorcerous, guitars, grimoires (Judy looked more than scornful at the quality)—I could go on for a lot longer.
Later, she got up to use the toilet and the spare toothbrush in the nostrums cabinet Then she came back to bed.
Clothes, food, jew elry, nostrums (the microimps in the spellchecker seemed dubious a few times, but not dubious enough to make me stop anybody), ethemet receiver imp modules (I wondered how many of those were stolen), toys both mechanical and sorcerous, guitars, grimoires (Judy looked more than scorn ful at the quality)—I could go on for a lot longer.
The off-duty constable who hadn't arrested the nostrums peddlers—whichever one he was—headed for the office.
It would be too easy to think of how lonely it was going to be, sitting in a seat on that train as it barrelled north toward Boston through the darkness, his suitcase overhead and his tote-bag full of nostrums between his feet, the fear sitting on his chest like a rancid Vicks-pack.
Thoroughgood had gone to sleep in his chair by the window, with his medicines and nostrums lined up beside him on the sill, soldiers of old age at muster.
What is in the medicine cupboard -- what mess of half-consumed remedies, patent nostrums, salves and balms, mixed with razor-blades too rusty to use but too good to throw away?
Not until Maggie has spooned some of her nostrums into you, and you get your strength back.
He can administer certain nostrums or, if necessary, use certain implements.
Herbs and simples, powders and potions, nostrums and medicks and salves and poultices, needle and gut: that's my trade.
And they spoke of nostrums and poultices and medicks, of simples and teas and tisanes, of mints and flowers and oils, of harvesting and drying, of stripping and pressing, of dicing and grinding, of cooking and storing and other preparation, and of growing and foraging as well, she sharing her lore, he sharing the knowledge contained in his red-bound book.
Bring plenty of your pills and nostrums with you—I'll likely need them for my creaking bones.