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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL.]

(Chem.)

Morphine.

Noun.

A vegetable alkali extracted from opium,of which it constitutes the narcotic principle.

See also: -morphia

morphia ‎(uncountable)

morphine
- 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
  The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.