Crossword-Solution: STRAM 5 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

STRAMONIUM, str[=a]-m[=o]'ni-um, _n._ a common narcotic weed of the Nightshade family, called also the _Thorn-apple_, _Stink-weed_, and _Jimson-weed_--_Datura Stramonium_: a drug prepared from its seeds and leaves, resembling belladonna, good in asthma.--Also STRAM'ONY.

The trader who picks up a desert Arab for a customer and sells him a knife, or a mirror box, or a packet of candles is likely to attract to himself a large trade, for when once the unmastered pastoral hordes of Al Jaz[=i]ra, Trak, and Stram[=i]ya see such objects, the desire of possession is aroused, and the refuse of Manchester and Birmingham will find its way into every tent in the desert.