Theine is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 62 anagrams from letters in theine (eehint).
1830-40; New Latin the(a) tea + -ine2
theine seems to act chiefly on the great sympathetic or ganglionic system of nerves, and but slightly on the brain.
theine is a poison belonging to the same class of poisonous alkaloids, and is closely allied to cocaine.
It contains the same active principle, theine as tea and coffee, but not their volatile and empyreumatic oils.
Dr Walter Blyth, commenting upon the above, says, the amount of theine is certainly understated.
As the theine is without flavour, its presence or absence cannot be determined by the taste of the tea.
The active principles of the leaves are theine and a volatile oil, to which latter the flavor and odor are due.
Medically speaking, this theine has a totally distinctive action from the infusions of which it forms a244 part.
Coffee contains caffein, a principle identical with theine and a modified form of tannin, though in less quantity than tea.
In the following tea assay proper the estimation of theine is not included.
theine, by being a restorative and an indirect sustainer and regulator of the circulation, may induce sleep.
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