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- noun Plural form of
masticatory .
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Examples
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Sneezing, masticatories, and nasals are generally received.
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Naturally, betel nuts, cola nuts, and other masticatories were available, as was a fresh root of kava-kava, a mild soporific and ritual beverage from the South Pacific.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Naturally, betel nuts, cola nuts, and other masticatories were available, as was a fresh root of kava-kava, a mild soporific and ritual beverage from the South Pacific.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The chief plants furnishing the drugs of commerce, and which enter largely into tropical agriculture, are the narcotic plants, especially tobacco, the poppy for opium, and the betel nut and leaf; as masticatories -- but there are very many others to which the attention of the cultivator may profitably be directed.
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They proceed at once to stain what is left with frequent applications of the above-mentioned masticatories.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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The juice has been applied to the nerve of a painful tooth with relief, and in diseases where acrid masticatories are serviceable.
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Of the various masticatories which have been in general use, if we except opium, tobacco is unquestionably the most pernicious.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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