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A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.
A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass.
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n.
Demur; delay in acting or deciding.
v. i.
To look demurely.
n.
a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle.
a.
Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
a.
Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure.
a.
That may be demurred to.
adv.
In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.
n.
The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
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n.
That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.
n.
A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.
n.
Demureness; also, one who is demure.
n.
A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent.
n.
One who demurs.
n.
A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.
v. i.
To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement.
v. i.
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
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