Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The general name of a class of preparations consisting of a medicinal substance dissolved or suspended in glycerol. Also glycerate, glycerol, glycerole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance inglycerine .
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- noun a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin
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Examples
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The compound gall ointment or the glycerite of tannin will be found to act successfully in some cases.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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McTeague sprayed the tooth with glycerite of tannin, but without effect.
McTeague 1920
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McTeague sprayed the tooth with glycerite of tannin, but without effect.
McTeague 1899
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McTeague sprayed the tooth with glycerite of tannin, but without effect.
McTeague Frank Norris 1886
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For this purpose the glycerite of tannin and laudanum in equal parts is good.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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(glycerite of tannin) must be applied on cotton wound on a curved applicator, and the instrument passed above and behind the roof of the mouth into the region back of the nose.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
yarb commented on the word glycerite
...even
as glycerite buds in a neighbour's pear tree
mark an irrevocable change
about to occur; we shall not see spring here again.
- Peter Reading, Spring Letter, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008