单词 | adarces |
释义 | adarcesn. Now chiefly historical. A salty substance found on plants exposed to salt water, formed as a result of evaporation and used for therapeutic purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun] pesse1464 adarces1566 marmaritin1584 apostles' salt1605 methium?1608 panther1656 lenociny1657 aroph1658 fox-lungs1660 Dutch drops1843 penicillamine1943 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xxv. f. 21v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Take of Euforbium two ounces, of Castoreum four ounces, of Adarces, half a pound. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry Table Hard Words Adraces or Adarces is that Salt which is ingendred on the salt marshes by the violence of the Sunnes heat after the tide is gone away. 1743 R. James Medicinal Dict. I. (at cited word) What they call Adarces, is produced in Galatia, and is a Sort of Concretion of a saltish Humour, which is bred in moist and marshy Places by Drought, and concretes about the Reeds and Grass. 1778 Sportsman's Dict. at Acopum Take half an ounce of castoreum, adraces two ounces, [etc.]. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. Adarce, a kind of concreted salts found on reeds and other vegetables, and applied by the ancients as a remedy in several cutaneous diseases. 1842 J. A. St. John Hist. Manners & Customs Anc. Greece III. vi. xi. 345 A very similar substance, called Adarces, was found in Cappadocia, about the rivers and marshes. 1904 Amer. Antiquarian 26 272 A cure recommended for the gout... Its contents are..one measure of adarces, [etc.]. 1961 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 72 172 In his day the incrustation was scraped off, crushed and sold under the name of ‘adarce’. This was used for cleaning teeth. 1995 Chinese Sci. Bull. (English ed.) 40 1267 (title) Discovery of chemical oscillatory layering in adarce from Rehai, Tengchong, Yunnan. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1566 |
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