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Webster 1913 Edition

Nostrum

Nos′trum

(-trŭm)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Nostrums
(-trŭmz)
.
[Neut. sing. of L.
noster
ours, fr.
nos
we. See
Us
.]
1.
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
2.
Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the
nostrums
of quacks.
Brougham.

Webster 1828 Edition

Nostrum

NOS'TRUM

,
Noun.
[L. from ours.] A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor.

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