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opiate 1. any of various narcotic drugs, such as morphine and heroin, that act on opioid receptors 2. any other narcotic or sedative drug 3. containing or consisting of opium How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top. The reader will perhaps imagine the sensations which now arose in Jones to have been so sweet and delicious, that they would rather tend to produce a chearful serenity in the mind, than any of those dangerous effects which we have mentioned; but in fact, sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. Such sleep as that, brought on without an opiate, would be worth more to me than half my income; for it would suppose health and an untroubled mind. |
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