Crossword clues for vermifuge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vermifuge \Ver"mi*fuge\, n. [Cf. F. vermifuge. See Vermifugal.] (Med.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine dated English) Referring to something that acts as a drug to cause expulsion or death of intestinal worms. n. (context medicine dated English) A drug that causes the expulsion or death of intestinal worms, such as tapeworms.
WordNet
n. a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms [syn: anthelmintic, anthelminthic, helminthic]
Usage examples of "vermifuge".
Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.
By reference to the article on anthelmintics in this volume, other valuable vermifuges may be selected, and directions found for their employment.
He knows as much of cows as I do of these vermifuges, and here was thirty two thousand two hundred and sixty eight dollars and seventeen cents overnight, without risking a penny.