Word Meanings - TOXICANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

Related words: (words related to TOXICANT)

• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• INTOXICANT
  That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• OPIUM
  The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. Note: Opium is obtained from incisions made in the capsules of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision. It is imported into Europe and America chiefly from the Levant,
• AGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
• POISONOUS
  Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious. Shak. -- Poi"son*ous*ly, adv. -- Poi"son*ous*ness, n.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• PELOPIUM
  A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.
• EUROPIUM
  A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; at. wt., 152.0.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• UNDERAGENT
  A subordinate agent.
• REAGENT
  A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
• COAGENT
  An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.
• MAGENTA
  An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye
• ENTROPIUM
  The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
• ECTROPIUM
  See ECTROPION