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narcotic
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum , from Greek narkotikon , neuter of narkotikos "making stiff or numb," from narkotos , verbal adjective of narcoun "to benumb, make unconscious," ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Narcotic , refers to medical or psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties. In the United States it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw ...
Usage examples of narcotic.
The root when incised secretes from its wounded bark a yellow juice of a narcotic odour and acrid taste.
As expected, they contained two main components: harmless colourants or flavourings designed to make them look or taste good, and doses of addictive narcotics.
Pakistan has been producing and testing, on an experimental basis, a wide range of odd drugs, both amphetamines and narcotics, in pill, liquid, and aerosol form.
The circumstances and conditions of the system increase or diminish the effects of medicine, so that an aperient at one time may act as a cathartic at another, and a dose that will simply prove to be an anodyne when the patient is suffering great pain will act as a narcotic when he is not.
But narcotic effects have been known to follow the chewing of Caraway seeds in a large quantity, such as three ounces at a time.
Even the use of a temporarily debilitating narcotic drug could be interpreted by the Cetacea as the use of violence.
Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline.
Beyond that, in his twenty-seven years he has piled up a tall and ugly police record: a multitude of arrests, from petty theft and battery, to rape, narcotics offenses and public cunnilingus -- and all this without a single felony conviction, being officially guilty of nothing more than what any spirited citizen might commit in some drunk or violent moment of animal weakness.
Some persons suppose that when artificially blanched the plant is less wholesome than if left to grow naturally in the garden, especially if its ready digestibility by those of sensitive stomachs be correctly attributed to the slightly narcotic principle.
So will marijuana, magic mushrooms, coca shrubs, dilly beans, pseudopoon, rakka, hebenon, and a host of other recreational narcotic plants.
Beaumont was a narcotics agent planted at Ironwood Ranch for entrapment purposes.
Fortunately, codeine is a rather mild narcotic, not nearly so powerful as what the Junkman took in by smoking.
Sugars, acetone bodies, creatine, nitrogenous compounds, haemoglobin, myoglobin, amino acids and metabolites, uric acid, urea, urobilinogen and coproporphyrins, bile pigments, minerals, fats, and of course a great variety of psychotropic drugs: certainly all of the ones proscribed by the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
Even the narcotic anatagonists such as nalorphine, pentazocine and cyclazocine, which have analgesic activity also have addiction liability.
The nickname stood for narcolepsy rather than narcotics and arose from an incident during their senior year when Bertie, a second-string tight end, had nodded off during the Class 3A football playoff between Cedar Dell and Bowie High.