| 单词 | sneezing-coffer |
| 释义 | > as lemmassneezing-coffer a. attributive and in other combinations, as sneezing-coffer, sneezing-maker, sneezing-mill, sneezing-powder, sneezing-tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > errhine nasal?a1425 sternutorya1425 sternutation1547 sneezing-powder1611 sneezing1621 errhine1626 sternutatory1634 sternutative1666 snuff1861 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sternutatoire, a sneezing medicine, or powder. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta ii. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkk4v/1 Bring a little sneezing powder in your Pocket. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §38 Sneezing-powder and other powders or Liquors (which the Physitians call Errhines). 1643 Dunfermline Kirk Sess. Rec. (1865) 12 Those who..taks yr sneising tobacco in the most remott..pairt of ye said yle. 1659 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 377 Walter Denune, sneisin maker. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 134 And there his Sneezing Milne and Box lyes. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 207 Sneezer or Sneezing-Coffer, a snuff-box. 1979 Guardian 25 Aug. 12/6 Soup..always tastes the same when you have accidentally emptied the pot of fine grey sneezing powder into it. 1982 London Mag. June 31 Once he bought sneezing-powder from the joke-shop in New Oxford Street. < as lemmas |
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