Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as curari.

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Examples

  • All the world knows the allusions in his works to those who "carve the living hound," and to curare, which he called "the hellish oorali."

    Great Testimony against scientific cruelty Stephen Coleridge 1895

  • Drench'd with the hellish [201] oorali -- that ever such things should be!

    The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

  • [413] L. 10 oorali: a drug extracted from Strychnos toxifera; It acts by paralysing the nerves of motion, whilst those of sensation are left unimpaired.

    The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

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