Definitions for laudanums

laudanums lau·da·num

Spelling: [lawd-n-uh m, lawd-nuh m]
IPA: /ˈlɔd n əm, ˈlɔd nəm/

Laudanums is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in laudanums (aadlmnsuu).

Definitions for laudanums

noun

  1. a tincture of opium.
  2. Obsolete. any preparation in which opium is the chief ingredient.

Origin of laudanums

1595-1605; orig. Medieval Latin variant of ladanum; arbitrarily used by Paracelsus to name a remedy based on opium

Examples for laudanums

In this interval he was induced to swallow forty drops of laudanum.

And lastly, two or three drops of laudanum according to the age of the child.

The doctor recovered himself when she asked for the laudanum.

Don't let her get any laudanum, or anything; and presently report to me.

But forego, if possible, your pernicious stimulant of laudanum.

Her spirits are remarkably high—not an uncommon effect of laudanum.

It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric.

He must have seen, as I saw, that she wanted the laudanum to poison herself.

M. M. Opium in very small doses, as three drops of laudanum.

The second of these lines it is which betrays the presence of laudanum.

Word Value for laudanums
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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