Opium
['əʊpɪəm] or ['opɪəm]
Definition
(noun.) an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy.
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Definition
(n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
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Definition
n. the narcotic juice of the white poppy.—n. O′pium-eat′er one who makes a habitual use of opium.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances of improving your fortune, by sly and seductive means.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
The real author of 'The Dream Book.'
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Examples
- The opium was probably brought from London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The stimulant influence of the opium had got him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The wiser course to take was to dismiss the idea of the opium from his mind, by leading him insensibly to think of something else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Powdered opium is by no means tasteless. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Back again, to-night, to the dreadful alternative between the opium and the pain! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You are not aware of ever having taken opium. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A pause in the action of the opium? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is an explanation of the same order as the famous saying that opium puts men to sleep because of its dormitive power. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You have already told me, he said, that you have never--to your knowledge--tasted opium in your life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- MY night, thanks to the opium, was the night of a man who is stunned. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You will find--First, that you entered Miss Verinder's sitting-room and took the Diamond, in a state of trance, produced by opium. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But even the virtues of opium have their limit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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