Canadian French Meaning of dover's powder
poudre de Douvres
Other Canadian French words related to poudre de Douvres
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Nearest Words of dover's powder
- dove's foot geranium => Géranium pied-de-pigeon
- dove's-foot => geranium pied-de-pigeon
- doveship => colombier
- dovetail => Queue d'aronde
- dovetail joint => Assemblage à queue d'aronde
- dovetail plane => Guimbarde à queue d'aronde
- dovetailed => queue d'aronde
- dovetailing => queue d'aronde
- dovish => conciliant
- dovishness => colombitié
Definitions and Meaning of dover's powder in English
dover's powder (n)
a medicinal powder made essentially of ipecac and opium; formerly used to relieve pain and induce perspiration
dover's powder ()
A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.
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poudre de Douvres
a medicinal powder made essentially of ipecac and opium; formerly used to relieve pain and induce perspirationA powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the U
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dovelike => colombin, dovelet => Tourterelle, dovekie => mergule nain, dove-eyed => yeux de colombe, dovecote => Colombier,
