Theines is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 147 anagrams from letters in theines (eehinst).
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.
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.
It contains the same active principle, theine as tea and coffee, but not their volatile and empyreumatic oils.
theine, by being a restorative and an indirect sustainer and regulator of the circulation, may induce sleep.
theine is a poison belonging to the same class of poisonous alkaloids, and is closely allied to cocaine.
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.
Dr Walter Blyth, commenting upon the above, says, the amount of theine is certainly understated.
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