The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conine \Co"nine\ (? or ?), n. [From Conium.] (Chem.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock ( Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2. [1913 Webster] ||
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n. (alternative spelling of coniine English)
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Conine may refer to the following.
Usage examples of "conine".
As little as one part of conine to fifty thousand of water gives off that odour—it is characteristic.
It was testified at the trial that conine, the active principle of hemlock, is intensely poisonous.
An injection of a most minute quantity of real conine will kill a mouse, for instance, almost instantly.
There is ample evidence, I have found, that conine or a substance possessing most, if not all, of its properties is at times actually produced in animal tissues by decomposition.
Was he killed by ordinary ptomaine poisoning, and had conine, or rather its double, developed first in his food along with other ptomaines that were not inert?
Somebody's living there and wouldn't it be Conine Stevenson's son Gerald?