A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist. →
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Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era. →
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A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural. →
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A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute). →
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An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. →