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thermantidote|θɜːˈmæntɪdəʊt|
[f. Gr. θέρµη heat + antidote.]
An antidote to heat.
1. A rotating fan fixed in a window-opening and incased in wet tatties, used in India to drive in a current of cooled air. (Introduced in 1831.)
‘[It] is in fact a winnowing machine fitted to a window aperture’ (Yule).
1840W. G. Osborne Crt. & Camp Runjeet Sing 132 The thermometer at 112 all day in our tents, notwithstanding tatties, thermantidotes, and every possible invention..to lessen the stifling heat. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xii. 214 Rooms should be kept dark during the day, and cooled by means of punkahs, thermantidotes, tatties.
2. Med. A cooling medicine. rare—0.
1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Thermantidotum, term for a medicine..: a thermantidote. 1890Billings Med. Dict., Thermantidote, a remedy against excessive heat or fever. |