Crossword clues for opium
opium
- Poppy derivative
- Drug in a den
- Den drug of old
- Narcotic from poppies
- Source of codeine
- Poppy-based narcotic
- Poppy yield
- Drug served in a den
- Drug made from poppies
- Poppy extract
- Poe's drug of choice
- Narcotic from a poppy
- Fragrance named for a narcotic
- Drug in the den?
- Drug derived from poppies
- Den stuff
- Yves Saint Laurent perfume since 1977
- YSL fragrance
- Subject of Great Britain/China wars
- Stuff in a den, once
- Source of morphine
- Scourge of the Orient
- Powerful narcotic
- Poppy stock
- Perfume from YSL
- Old den indulgence
- Narcotic collected by scraping seedpods
- Morphine source
- It might be smoked in a den
- Heroin is made from it
- Extract from poppies
- Drug that may be taken in tea
- Drug that comes from poppies
- Drug once smoked in dens
- Drug made from poppy plants
- Drug at the center of some 19th-century wars
- Coleridge's drug of choice
- Cause of 19th century warfare between England and China
- ___ Wars (conflicts of the 19th century)
- __ den
- Southeast Asia product
- Poppy product
- Cause of an 1839-42 war
- Yves St. Laurent fragrance
- Kind of den
- Painkiller since ancient times
- Codeine source
- Smuggled stuff
- Soporific substance
- It may be found in a den
- It's addictive
- Religion, to Karl Marx
- Dope in a den?
- Kind of pipe
- Drug that's smoked in a pipe
- Smuggler's stock
- Yves Saint Laurent fragrance
- "Confessions of an English ___-Eater"
- Drug from poppies
- YSL perfume named for a drug
- Vice of Dorian Gray
- Heroin source
- Dried poppy juice
- ___ War: 1839–42
- Sherlock Holmes's drug
- De Quincey subject
- What De Quincey ate
- After work, I’m swallowing universal painkiller
- Narcotic: retired army doctor secures more in Milan
- Narcotic derived from poppies
- Powerful drug: one taken with expression of doubt after operation
- Poppy drug
- I ... er … join operation to locate drug
- Drug is used mainly at first after surgery
- Narcotic drug
- Addictive narcotic
- Addictive drug
- Hookah substance
- Poppy narcotic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opium \O"pi*um\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? poppy juice, dim. of ? vegetable juice.] (Chem.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Note: Opium is obtained from incisions made in the capsules of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision. It is imported into Europe and America chiefly from the Levant, and large quantities are sent to China from India, Persia, and other countries. It is of a brownish yellow color, has a faint smell, and bitter and acrid taste. It is a stimulant narcotic poison, which may produce hallicinations, profound sleep, or death. It is much used in medicine to soothe pain and inflammation, and is smoked as an intoxicant with baneful effects.
Opium joint, a low resort of opium smokers. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin opium, from Greek opion "poppy juice, poppy," diminutive of opos "vegetable juice." Die Religion ist der Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur, das Gemüth einer herzlosen Welt, wie sie der Geist geistloser Zustände ist. Sie ist das Opium des Volks. [Karl Marx, "Zur Kritik der Hegel'schen Rechts-Philosophie," in "Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher," February, 1844]\nThe British Opium War against China lasted from 1839-42; the name is attested from 1841.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, ''Papaver somniferum'', and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. 2 (context countable English) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
WordNet
n. an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy
Wikipedia
Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum). Opium latex contains approximately 12 percent of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and for the illegal drug trade. The latex also contains the closely related opiates codeine and thebaine, and non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine. The traditional, labor-intensive method of obtaining the latex is to scratch ("score") the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to a sticky yellowish residue that is later scraped off and dehydrated. The word " meconium" (derived from the Greek for "opium-like", but now used to refer to infant stools) historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the opium poppy or different species of poppies.
The production of opium has not changed since ancient times. Through selective breeding of the Papaver somniferum plant, the content of the phenanthrene alkaloids morphine, codeine, and to a lesser extent thebaine has been greatly increased. In modern times, much of the thebaine, which often serves as the raw material for the synthesis for hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and other semisynthetic opiates, originates from extracting Papaver orientale or Papaver bracteatum.
Opium for illegal use is often converted into heroin, which is less bulky, making it easier to smuggle, and which multiplies its potency to anywhere from twice to four times that of morphine.
Opium is the debut album by KMFDM released in 1984. There were only a handful of cassette copies made. The album was re-released in 2002 by KMFDM Records. It was originally recorded in Hamburg, Germany.
Opium is one of only two KMFDM studio albums ( Nihil being the other) that does not feature cover artwork by pop-artist Brute!.
Opium is a plant latex that is a source of narcotic analgesic drugs
Opium may also refer to:
"Opium" is a song by the band Moonspell. It is from the album Irreligious and was released as a single.
The end of the song has a quote from one of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos, from his poem Opiário.
Опиум (Opioom (or Opium in English)) is the third released single by Russian girl band Serebro. Given to its order of release, the song is nicknamed "Song #3" after its predecessors " Song #1" and "Song #2" ( Дыши). This is the fourth song to be made public from Serebro's upcoming album after "What's Your Problem?" was performed at the RMA on 4 October 2007.
Opium is an Oriental-spicy perfume created for fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) by perfumer Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac of Roure, first marketed in 1977. Its top notes are a mixture of fruit and spices, with mandarin orange, plum, clove, coriander and pepper, as well as bay leaf. Its floral middle notes consist predominantly jasmine, rose and Lily of the Valley, in addition to carnation, cinnamon, peach and orris root. It is underlined by the sweet woody base note containing sandalwood, cedarwood, myrrh, opopanax, labdanum, benzoin and castoreum, in addition to amber, incense, musk, patchouli, tolu and vetiver.
Opium is an album by English musician Matt Berry.
Opium is Berry's second album, originally released in 2008.
Opium is a 1919 German silent film directed by Robert Reinert and starring Eduard von Winterstein, Sybill Morel and Werner Krauss.
Opium (Spanish: Opio) is a 1949 Mexican crime film directed by Ramón Peón.
The film's sets were designed by Ramón Rodríguez Granada.
Opium is the tenth studio album by Swedish trip hop musician Jay-Jay Johanson. It is his first album to be distributed through Kwaidan Records.
Usage examples of "opium".
He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.
Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.
They figured the Kurds, Afghanis, and Tuaregs already there would like a bit of smoke, and they could always refine opium into heroin if the Irish and Basques preferred needles to pipes.
Furthermore, deep stirrings within my own person are by no means absent: a consequence of my abstention, opium in all its forms being an antaphrodisiac, counteracting venereal desire.
Macao was astir with the progress of the pits being prepared at Chuenpi and the enormous stores of confiscated opium being piled behind bamboo fences that sealed off the area.
In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.
He also ran casinos, dog tracks, was involved in illicit trades on the stock market, owned diamond mines, smuggled opium and probably had a finger in every dodgy pie imaginable .
Behrend observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.
It was Rushad himself who would bring the opium tincture to the festal hall, late in the proceedings, and see it dispersed among the myriad pitchers of beer and kumis.
Next I bought a joint, a popper, a phial of cocaine and a plug of opium from a fat spade in Times Square and snuffled it all up in a gogo bar toilet.
I proved him the truth of what I had said by telling him that opium produced the same results as wine, but more powerfully, and consequently Mahomet ought to have forbidden the use of it.
He observed that he had never taken either wine or opium in the course of his life.
The glare of their black eyes was like those of Eastern eaters of hasheesh or opium, and they bounded to and fro as if their muscles were springs of steel.
On Friday night Garcia was recovering from a pipe or more of opium, and possibly a jorum of whisky.
Chinese wine would be consumed, pots of kaoliang cooked with rice prepared, and those who had opium would divide with those who had none.