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strychnine Chem.|ˈstrɪkniːn, -ɪn|
[a. F. strychnine f. L. strychn-os: see Strychnos and -ine5.]
A highly poisonous vegetable alkaloid, C21H22N2O2, obtained chiefly from Strychnos Nux-vomica and other plants of the same genus. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and tonic.
1819Edin. Philos. Jrnl. I. 210 New vegetable Alkali called Strychnine.—This new alkali was discovered by MM. Pelletier and Caventou in the Strychnos ignatia and the Strychnos nux vomiea. 1861Brit. & For. Med.-Chirurg. Rev. XXVII. 533 A case of poisoning by strychnine.
b. attrib. as in strychnine poisoning, strychnine tetanus; strychnine-plant, Strychnos Nux-vomica; strychnine-tree, S. psilosperma.
1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 688 Frogs, in whom strychnine tetanus had been produced. 1884W. Miller Plant.-n. 131 Strychnine-plant. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 129 The cottage was overshadowed by a strychnine-tree and a tamarind. 1898Fr. A. Welby tr. Biedermann's Electro-Physiol. II. 423 The effect of strychnine poisoning..is highly characteristic.
Hence ˈstrychnine v. trans., to poison by strychnine; ˈstrychnined ppl. a.
1862Sporting Mag. Apr. 288 We are informed that strychnined rabbits form the patent ‘composing draught’. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. III. 11 Poor Nero, who had to be strychnined by the doctor. 1903R. B. Smith in 19th Cent. Mar. 441 Others..are willing to put down a strychnined egg for him [a raven]. |