Crossword-Solution: OXYMEL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oxymel | n. | A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with OXYMEL (5)
Mix three drachms of ipecacuanha wine with half an ounce of oxymel of squills, the same quantity of spirits of tolu, one ounce of mucilage, and two ounces of water.
Syrup of poppies, oxymel of squills, simple oxymel, in equal parts, mixed, and a teaspoonful taken when the cough is troublesome.
Thus we read of the "_Pilulae artheticae Salernitorum_," the "_Cathapcie Alexandrine_," the "_Oxymel Juliani_" the "_Pilulae Arabice_," the "_Pulvis Petrocelli_," the "_Oleum benedictum_," the "_Pilulae Johannicii_," etc.
For sore throats it may be used in gargles with remarkable benefit; and [260] when mixed with vinegar it forms the old-fashioned oxymel, always popular against colds of the chest and throat.
These should consist of an ounce each of oxymel squills and spearmint water, and half a scruple of ipecacuanha, accompanied with frequent draughts of water gruel to assist the operation.--Those poisons which may be called culinary, are generally the most destructive, because the least suspected; no vessels therefore made of copper or brass should be used in cooking.