The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strychnine \Strych"nine\, n. [L. strychnos a kind of nightshade, Gr. ?: cf. F. strychnine.] (Chem.) A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiace[ae], as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean ( Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.
Usage examples of "strychnina".
I spent it in ransacking the library until I discovered a medical book which gave a description of strychnine poisoning.
Inglethorp died of strychnine poisoning, presumably administered in her coffee.
Inglethorp took her coffee upstairs with her, I do not see what you expect to find, unless you consider it likely that we shall discover a packet of strychnine on the coffee tray!
Judging from the quantity recovered, she must have taken not less than three-quarters of a grain of strychnine, but probably one grain or slightly over.
She would have had to take very nearly the whole bottle to account for the amount of strychnine found at the post-mortem.
Monday evening last, did you purchase strychnine for the purpose of poisoning a dog?
Of all the household, he alone would be likely to recognize the symptoms of strychnine poisoning, and yet we find him the only member of the family to uphold strenuously the theory of death from natural causes.
Bauerstein had it tested, and you yourself laughed at the possibility of there being strychnine in it.
Or it may not have been strychnine at all, but some obscure drug no one has ever heard of, which produces much the same symptoms.
Mary, where you purchased strychnine in the name of Alfred Inglethorp?
The analyst was asked by him to report whether strychnine was, or was not, present.
Guess at her relief when strychnine is mentioned, and she discovers that after all the tragedy is not her doing.
A narcotic taken with strychnine will delay the action of the poison for some hours.
What third medium was there--a medium so suitable for disguising the taste of strychnine that it is extraordinary no one has thought of it?
Fiat Mistura This solution deposits in a few hours the greater part of the strychnine salt as an insoluble bromide in transparent crystals.