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  • noun Plural form of potion.

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Examples

  • Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich.

    Albinos, Long Shunned, Face Deadly Threat in Tanzania « Isegoria 2008

  • In the next bed were the medicinal herbs she used in potions for sick folks: squaw weed, hepatica, goldenseal, ginseng for the brain, jewelweed for poison ivy rash, wolf milk for warts, and fleabane and pale hergamot, which Granny would rub on her face and arms to keep off mosquitos and gnats.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Linda 2007

  • There are two sections that I love and I will be using very soon, homemade lotions and potions is the first.

    66 entries from January 2007 2007

  • There are two sections that I love and I will be using very soon, homemade lotions and potions is the first.

    Crafter Culture 2007

  • There are two sections that I love and I will be using very soon, homemade lotions and potions is the first.

    Crafter Culture 2007

  • An attempted suicide, a dead secret agent, a man experimenting with immortality potions is found dead in a locked room, and there is a homage to Murder on the Orient Express.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • In the next bed were the medicinal herbs she used in potions for sick folks: squaw weed, hepatica, goldenseal, ginseng for the brain, jewelweed for poison ivy rash, wolf milk for warts, and fleabane and pale hergamot, which Granny would rub on her face and arms to keep off mosquitos and gnats.

    Miss Mattie Lou: A Follower of Christ Linda 2007

  • Gallery of Nostrums: Some old potions from the FDA.

    Medpundit 2004

  • Gallery of Nostrums: Some old potions from the FDA.

    Archive 2004-01-01 2004

  • Now Mameha's simple one-room apartment had mats the color of stale tea and smelled of herbal potions from the Chinese pharmacy below — so much so that her kimono themselves sometimes gave off a faint medicinal odor.

    Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997

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