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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] in + [GREEK], [GREEK], nose: cf. F.

errhin

(Med.)

A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.

Coxe.

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Adj.

Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.

Adj.

er'rine. [Gr. the nose.] Affecting the nose, or to be snuffed into the nose; occasioning discharges from the nose.

Noun.

er'rine. A medicine to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus.