medicine |
1. n. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way. | |
2. n. A treatment or cure. | |
3. n. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness. | |
4. n. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine. | |
5. n. Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc. | |
6. n. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing. | |
7. n. (obsolete) black magic, superstition. | |
8. n. (obsolete) A philter or love potion. | |
9. n. (obsolete) A physician. | |
10. n. (slang) recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks | |
11. v. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine. | |
cauterization |
1. n. The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. | |
with |
1. prep. Against. | |
He picked a fight with the class bully. | |
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | |
He went with his friends. | |
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to. | |
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar. | |
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. | |
5. prep. In support of. | |
We are with you all the way. | |
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by. | |
slain with robbers | |
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of. | |
cut with a knife | |
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on. | |
9. prep. Having, owning. | |
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | |
Do you want to come with? | |
11. adv. --> | |
12. n. alternative form of withe | |
electricity |
1. n. Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the d | |
2. n. (physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. | |
3. n. A feeling of excitement; a thrill. | |
Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings. | |
4. n. Electric power/energy as used in homes etc., supplied by power stations or generators. | |
electrocautery |
1. n. cauterization by the use of an instrument heated by electricity; electrocauterization | |
2. n. such an instrument | |