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bezoar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bezoar \Be"zoar\, n. [F. b['e]zoard, fr. Ar. b[=a]zahr, b[=a]dizahr, fr. Per. p[=a]d-zahr bezoar; p[=a]d protecting + zahr poison; cf. Pg. & Sp. bezoar.] A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
Note: Two kinds were particularly esteemed, the Bezoar orientale of India, and the Bezoar occidentale of Peru.
Bezoar antelope. See Antelope.
Bezoar goat (Zo["o]l.), the wild goat ( Capra [ae]gagrus).
Bezoar mineral, an old preparation of oxide of antimony.
--Ure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., ultimately from Arabic bazahr, from Persian pad-zahr "counter-poison," from pad "protecting, guardian, master" (from Iranian *patar-, source also of Avestan patar-, from PIE *pa-tor-, from root *pa- "to protect, feed;" see food) + zahr "poison" (from Old Iranian *jathra, from PIE *gwhn-tro-, from root *gwhen- "to strike, kill;" see bane). Originally "antidote," later specifically in reference to a concoction from solid matter found in the stomachs and intestines of ruminants, which was held to have antidotal qualities (1570s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in an animal's intestines; a hairball. 2 An enterolith.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A bezoar is a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system, though it can occur in other locations. A pseudobezoar is an indigestible object introduced intentionally into the digestive system.
There are several varieties of bezoar, some of which have inorganic constituents and others organic. The term has both a modern (medical, scientific) and a traditional usage.
Usage examples of "bezoar".
Charles Westin Bezoar, at your service, formerly of the bar of the State of Oregon and Republican Commissioner for Jackson County.
Like Bezoar, the newcomers were clearly old enough to have been adults before the Doomwar.
Gordon glanced quickly at Charles Bezoar, standing beyond the two augments.
Gordon raised his head and saw through the leaves that Charles Bezoar stood beside the General.
At last, Macklin had ordered Bezoar to stop and let the women do some work.
Charles Bezoar quickly closed the door to the win-dowless storage room-where Marcie and Heather presumably still tended the other prisoner Gordon had not yet seen.
It opened slowly and Charles Bezoar stared at the empty room, at the limp, hanging rope.
Harry stood there waiting, the bezoar clutched in a slightly sweaty hand.
I got the bezoar down his throat and his breathing eased up a bit, Slughorn ran for help, McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey turned up, and they brought Ron up here.
Governor John Winthrop, the first, sends for East Indian bezoar, with other commodities he is writing for.
Whitmore, had taken the parenting class into the Twilight Zone when he had his students adopt the eggs of a mind-controlling bezoar living under the school basement.
Potions test, and consequently forgot to add the key ingredient - a bezoar - meaning that he received bottom marks.
Soldiers marched in, escorting strings of mules carrying chests of gold and silver, goatskins filled with bezoar stones, and bales of vicuna wool.
The ingredients are cinnabar, flowers of sulphur, olibanum, myrrh, camphor, Dragon's Blood, sulphate of copper, musk, burnt alum, bear's gall, yellow lead, centipedes, earthworms, silkworms, plum blossoms, cow bezoar, toad spittle, white jade dust, borax, tree grubs, and snails, and while some may consider the price slightly steep, the wise will consider the alternative.