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- noun See
poison .
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Examples
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Shortly after I got back home with the morning fishwrapper, the skies opened and dumped cats, dogs, and arrow-poison frogs upon us.
Morning entertainment jhetley 2008
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Braidwood 14.77 speaks of the physiologic action of Dajaksch, an arrow-poison used in Borneo.
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Braidwood speaks of the physiologic action of Dajaksch, an arrow-poison used in Borneo.
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Curare is the arrow-poison of certain tribes of South American
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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Nay, more, there are even some tribes where not an individual knows how the arrow-poison is made; and these have to procure it by barter from others, paying a high price, and sometimes going a great distance for it.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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Nay, more, there are even some tribes where not an individual knows how the arrow-poison is made; and these have to procure it by barter from others, paying a high price, and sometimes going a great distance for it.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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A yellowish liquid soon commenced to filter and drip into the pan, and this liquid was the _curare_, the arrow-poison.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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But it probably does more harm than good to medical science at the present time, by keeping up the delusion of treating everything by specifics, -- the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons [Lachesis, arrow-poison, obtained from a serpent (Pulte).
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But it probably does more harm than good to medical science at the present time, by keeping up the delusion of treating everything by specifics, -- the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons [Lachesis, arrow-poison, obtained from a serpent (Pulte).
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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