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Tartar emetic   /tˈɑrtər ɪmˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Tartar emetic

noun
1.
A poisonous colorless salt used as a mordant and in medicine.  Synonym: antimony potassium tartrate.





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"Tartar emetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... For "tartar emetic," give Peruvian bark and water, (or a strong decoction of green tea, if you have not the bark.) For "saltpetre," give an emetic of mustard seed with water, and afterwards elm bark mucilage, and small doses of laudanum. This ...
— Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea
... of Kinderhook, of the same colony; and a qualmish-looking old chap, in a sort of marine's jacket, who answers when hailed as Francis. A rum set taken altogether, though they seem to suit the Captain's fancy. Mem.—Each lipper of a wave works like tartar emetic on the ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper


Words linked to "Tartar emetic" :   mordant, antimony potassium tartrate, tartrate


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