quietenern.

1856 Times 7 July 9/6 The drug was known at the chymists' by the name of ‘quietners’, and was usually purchased by women who had drunken husbands, to cure them of the habit.

1856 Punch 19 July 22/1 The conjugal powders are called in the town of Bolton ‘Quietners’... These quietners are sold at one penny each.

1882 Fraser's Mag. 25 35 The poisonous method of giving soothing or narcotic quieteners to children.

1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill iv. 148 The danger, as it was felt, inhering in the terrified victim accounted for the unnecessary potency of the drug administered as a quietener.

1976 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 30 May a5/5 I have put nail polish, chigger lotions and other quieteners on those red bumps that rise up, but nothing gives the relief to the itching that scratching does.

2001 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 31 129 Del's father retreats further and further into silence, restricting the number of books he reads to the few beside his bed, using them as sleep inducers, mind quieteners, not stimulants.