thermantidoten.
/θəːˈmantɪdəʊt/ 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).
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1840 W. G. Osborne Court & 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.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 214 Rooms should be kept dark during the day, and cooled by means of punkahs, thermantidotes, tatties.
2. Medicine. A cooling medicine. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Thermantidotum, term for a medicine..: a thermantidote.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Thermantidote, a remedy against excessive heat or fever.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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