单词 | poppy water |
释义 | > as lemmaspoppy water poppy water n. a soporific drink or soothing infusion made from poppies; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > hypnotic > drink or draught > plant-derived poppy water1653 1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 67/2 Aqua Papaveris Composita. Page 39. in L. Book. Or, Poppy Water Compound. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 202 And Sleep drop't Poppy-water on her Brows. 1765 O. Goldsmith New Simile 36 No poppy-water half so good; For let folks only get a touch, Its soporific virtue's such,..That quickly they begin to snore. 1801 Port Folio 26 Dec. 410/1 Was the vine juice of Egypt ever mixed with poppy water, that it might, like the fabled river of oblivion, drown memory and her tribes? 1899 North Adams (Mass.) Evening Transcript 17 Feb. 7/6 A sty should be bathed very often with warm water. If very painful, use warm poppy water. 2003 Independent (Nexis) 17 Oct. 26 He took purgatives, ingestions of steel, wormwood, iron oxide, poppy water, caraway and amber. < as lemmas |
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