Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Promoting or inducing nasal discharge.
- n. A medication that promotes or induces such discharge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In medicine, affecting the nose, or designed to be snuffed into the nose; occasioning discharges from the nose.
- n. A medicine to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine, rare Causing an increase in mucus within the nose, and hence causing one to sneeze.
- n. medicine, uncommon A medicine applied inside the nose to increase the production of mucus, and hence sneezing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing nasal discharge
Etymologies
- From Latin errhīnum, from Ancient Greek ἔρρῖνον, from ἐν ("in") + ῥίν ("nostril"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin errhīnum, an errhine medicine, from Greek errīnon : en-, in; see en-2 + rhīs, rhīn-, nose. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The dry leaves are powdered and used as an errhine, for the cure of headache.”
“Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels.”
“The leaves, dried and powdered, have powerful errhine properties.”
“The powder is an active errhine, and the leaves have some celebrity in domestic practice, as being antispasmodic, antiscorbutic, and astringent.”
“The brown powder attached to the foot-stalks possesses considerable power as an errhine.”
“Euphorbium or cayan pepper mixed with sugar, and used with caution as an errhine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘errhine’.
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Logolepsy
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for the same
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Botanical Terms
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rememberers
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Grandiloquence
Big, 'fancy' synonyms for simple concepts. Often scientific or medical terms
sternutation, susurration, flatulence, eructation, ephelides, borborygmus, titubate, terpsichorean, tachyphagia, tachyphrasia, sudorous, stupration and 60 more...
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begins with a vowel
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Tweets
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bilby Biocon, it is in fact a valid example, being an excerpt from the novel 'Name' by Toadex Hobogrammaton. Aug 27, 2011
bilby To err is human; to errhine is to leave our dear Jade Foreskin, whore-forsaken, full of cud and these red Brazilian vegetables, reflecting on his fortyninethousand adharmic elements. Aug 27, 2011
biocon One of the examples for the word "errhine" is an extremely long array of words that do not form sentences. Aug 27, 2011