Epsom
['epsəm]
Definition
n. a useful purgative medicine acting as a refrigerant and sometimes as a diuretic.—Also Ep′som-salt.
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Examples
- They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Among other lining materials found suitable were soapstone, alumina, ammonia, copperas, starch, Epsom salts, and gypsum, paper, pulp, and alum, and a mixture of various other materials. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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