Strychnine is valid Scrabble Word

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10 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for STRYCHNINE in dictionary:

VERB:

to poison with strychnine, a very poisonous alkaloid obtained from the seeds of the nux vomica plan
to poison with strychnine

NOUN:

a bitter and highly poisonous compound obtained from nux vomica and related plants. An alkaloid, it has occasionally been used as a stimulant.
a very poisonous alkaloid obtained from the seeds of the nux vomica plant
A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.
an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a bitter poisonous alkaloid C21H22N2O2 that is obtained from nux vomica and related plants (genus Strychnos) and is used as a poison (as for rodents) and medicinally as a stimulant of the central nervous system

Words related to STRYCHNINE

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Words that contain STRYCHNINE

strychnined20 strychnines19

How to use STRYCHNINE in a sentence

In each little capsule were five grains of strychnine.
In these seeds strychnine was found by Pelletier and Caventou in 1818, as it subsequently was in crack-nuts.
Better for my dear boy had he given him a glass of strychnine.
The rays may be compared in this double effect to drugs, such as strychnine.
I knew girls in college who took strychnine to keep themselves going through examinations or other occasions of great physical strain, and they have suffered for it ever since.
In the case of the application of strychnine, the rate in the current of the blood was retarded in a proportion equal to the reduction in the secretion of the urine.
Strychnine was injected, and about noon we recovered hope.
The third illustration of poisoning was poisoning by strychnine.
An Austrian official killed ten in one night with strychnine during my visit.
Poison is frequently administered by soaking grain in strychnine or dropping it on pieces of potato and putting the same in or near the burrows.

I feel desperately depressed when I think of those poor fellows lying in their graves with ounces and ounces of strychnine in their stomachs.
It is precisely the reverse of the typical action of strychnine.
The necessary use of strychnine as a heart stimulant at the cholera hospital was made the basis for a story that the sick were being poisoned with this drug.
His custom for years was to effect policies of insurance on the lives of his relations, and then at the proper time administer strychnine to his victims.
CHAPTER XII SPECIAL FORMS OF UNFITNESS Place a quinine tablet and a strychnine tablet of the same size on the table before you.
He intended to put strychnine that was used to kill rats into her coffee that he usually served her.
There was an abundance of suet in the beef, several vials of strychnine had been provided, and a full gallon of poisoned tallow was prepared in event of its needs.
We bought a yoke of oxen, a wagon-sheet, wagon, traps of all sorts, and strychnine with which to poison wolves.
I should undoubtedly put strychnine in their coffee if they stayed, I should hate the sight of them so.
After swallowing a dose of strychnine, however, it improved wonderfully, and we were enabled to continue, but naturally at a very slow pace.
A favourite method was to give a dose of strychnine to a fowl and if it died, the accused was guilty, but if it lived, he was innocent.
The best and surest for that purpose is strychnine, one grain of which, if genuine, will kill the largest wolf in Canada.

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