Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystallized alkaloid of opium, C22H23NO7.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also
narcotia .
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- noun An
alkaloid found inopium ;noscapine
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Examples
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He contributed greatly towards the definition of the arrangement of atoms within molecules of morphine, papaverine, narcotine, etc.
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Found only on Omega are Black Slipper, nace, manicee, tri-narcotine, djedalas, and the various products of the carmoid group.
The Status Civilization Robert Sheckley 1966
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White Poppy capsules, when dried, furnish papaverine and narcotine, with some mucilage, and a little waxy matter.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The base cotarnine also results from the prolonged heating of narcotine with water alone.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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A chief chemical feature, which distinguishes Bengal opium from that of Turkey and Egypt, is the large proportion which the narcotine in the former bears to the morphia, and this proportion is constant in all seasons.
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In the opium from eight divisions of the agency, he found the quantity of morphia to range from 1¾ grains to 3½ grains per cent., and the amount of the narcotine to vary from ¾ grain to 3½ grains per cent., the consistence of the various specimens being between 75 and 79 per cent.
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Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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The chemical examination of different soils in connection with their opium-producing powers, presents a field for profitable and interesting inquiry; nor is the least important part of the investigation that which has reference to variations in the proportions of the alkaloids (especially the morphia and narcotine), which occur in opium produced in various localities.
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It never yields more than five per cent. of morphia, whence its inferiority, but is as good in other respects, and even richer in narcotine.
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Slipper through the multicolored hallucinations of peyotl and tri-narcotine, to the sexual fantasies induced by nace and morphine, and at last to the memory-resurrecting dreams of the carmoid group. "
The Status Civilization Robert Sheckley 1966
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