Word
Dover's powder
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
do-ver's pow-der
Definition
- - 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.
- noun - A medicinal powder made essentially of ipecac and opium; formerly used to relieve pain and induce perspiration
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