attributive, as swooning bed, swooning fit, swooning passion, swooning state; swooning-ripe adj. Obsolete ready to swoon. swooning-water n. Obsolete…
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > restoratives for faintness (11) swooning-water1574 attributive, as swooning bed, swooning fit, swooning passion, swooning state; swooning-ripe adj. Obsolete ready to swoon. swooning-water n. Obsolete… sal volatile1654 Ammonium carbonate, esp. an aromatic solution of this used as a restorative in fainting fits. melancholy water1670 a remedy for faintness in women. salt of hartshorn1680 spirit of hartshorn, also simply hartshorn: the aqueous solution of ammonia (whether obtained from harts' horns or otherwise). salt of hartshorn… sal1706 Short for sal volatile, n. Obsolete. salt1740 colloquial. plural. Smelling salts, consisting usually of ammonium carbonate. eau-de-Luce1756 French for ‘water’, occurring in the names of several liquids, used as scents or in medicine, as See… a medicinal preparation of alcohol, ammonia… restorative1825 A remedy or treatment used to restore a person to consciousness. Now rare. smelling-salts1841 a preparation of carbonate of ammonia and scent for smelling, used as a restorative in cases of faintness or headache. salts-bottle1847 Preston salts1858 Old Chemistry. Particular substances of this class are distinguished by defining words (cf. sal, n.1); e.g. †salt ammoniac (= sal ammoniac, n.), †esse… |
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