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Word Meanings - CONTRASTIMULANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. -- n.

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  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • BASKING SHARK
    One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
  • BASIFY
    To convert into a salifiable base.
  • BASILIC; BASILICAL
    Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • BASS VIOL
    A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
  • BASSWOOD
    The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.
  • BASTARDLY
    Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • BASKET BALL
    A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
  • BASAL
    Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.
  • BASINET
    See BASCINET
  • BASED
    Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym:
  • BASIFIER
    That which converts into a salifiable base.
  • COUNTERACT
    To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
  • BASTE
    To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the
  • BASICITY
    The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • BASENESS
    The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
  • MEDICALLY
    In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • POLYBASIC
    Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.
  • POLYBASITE
    An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • VORTEX THEORY
    The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • UNBASHFUL
    Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • CALABASH
    Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.

 

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