physic
physic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
- 2.Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
- 3.A physician. [R.] Shak. Physic nut (Bot.), a small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha Curcas), and its seeds, which are well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities.
- 4.To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
- 5.To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure. The labor we delight in physics pain. Shak. A mind diseased no remedy can physic. Byron.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is physic.
- What is a specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine called?
- What is specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic called?
- What is to treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge called?
- What is to work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure. The labor we delight in physics pain. Shak. A mind diseased no remedy can physic. Byron called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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