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Menstruum

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A solvent, especially one used in extracting compounds from plant and animal tissues and preparing drugs.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any solvent used for extracting medicinal compounds from plants etc.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Any fluid substance which dissolves a solid; a solvent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (archaic) a solvent

n. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

Word Usage

"Keeping this doughty resolution, he sat down to dinner with his counsel learned in the law; and speedily they dispatched the dish of chops which was set before them, and the better part of the bottle of old port, which served for its menstruum."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dissolver dissolving agent resolvent solvent dissolvent

Variant

menstrua

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

solvent

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

resolvent raffinate unbricker seedcake magisterium