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Webster 1913 Edition
Chlorodyne
Chlo′ro-dyne
,Noun.
[From
chlor
ine, in imitation of anodyne
.] (Med.)
A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
Definition 2024
chlorodyne
chlorodyne
English
Noun
chlorodyne (plural chlorodynes)
- A narcotic drug, made from chloroform, morphia and other substances.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Consequences’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 71:
- Then he began, for he had a good memory, quoting a few of the more important notes in the papers—slowly and one by one as a man drops chlorodyne into a glass.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- Mr. Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Consequences’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 71: