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medicine man
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Forbes is a one-bottle medicine man.
▪ He spoke Navajo and once sang with a Navajo medicine man at the bedside of a sick girl.
▪ On the Reservation, being a medicine man meant literally that these days.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Medicine man

Medicine \Med"i*cine\, n. [L. medicina (sc. ars), fr. medicinus medical, fr. medicus: cf. F. m['e]decine. See Medical.]

  1. The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

  2. Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a medication; a medicament; a remedy; physic.

    By medicine, life may be prolonged.
    --Shak.

  3. A philter or love potion. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  4. [F. m['e]decin.] A physician. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    1. Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.

      The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
      --F. H. Giddings.

    2. Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.

  5. Short for Medicine man.

  6. Intoxicating liquor; drink. [Slang]

    Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them.

    Medicine man (among the North American Indians), a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic; a shaman.

    Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

Wiktionary
medicine man

n. A Native American shamanistic healer. The term is also used to refer to traditional healers of other indigenous aboriginal peoples.

WordNet
medicine man

n. a Native American shaman

Wikipedia
Medicine man

A medicine man or medicine woman is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people. Individual cultures have their own names, in their respective Indigenous languages, for the spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders in their particular cultures.

Medicine Man (film)

Medicine Man is a 1992 film directed by American action director John McTiernan. The film stars Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco, and features an acclaimed score by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Usage examples of "medicine man".

The Sioux medicine man Sitting Bull was indulging in war talk, and was aided and abetted by two powerful warriors, skilled tacticians and great leadersCrazy Horse and Gall.

Some of the Crow medicine men believed he was a medicine man himself, even though his skin was white and his eyes were the wrong color.

Besides, what was the use of being the student of a Medicine Man if you couldn't ask his advice?

As a medicine man myself, I knew from the first this isn't a routine case.