ANODYNE

AN'ODYNE, [Gr. pain.]Any medicine which allays pain, or causes sleep, as an opiate, paregoric, narcotic, etc.AN'ODYNE, adjective Assuaging pain; causing sleep, or insensibility.

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anodyne. Anodyne, n. a medicine to assuage pain and dispose to sleep

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An″o‐dyne (ăn″ō̍‐dīn), a. [[L. anodynus, Gr. � free from pain, stilling pain; αν̓ priv. + � pain: cf. F. anodin.]] Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke. ☞ “The word in chiefly applied to the different preparations of opium, belladonna, hyoscyamus, and lettuce.” Am. Cyc.