laudanum in English

noun
1
an alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller.
Doctors would give babies phenobarbital for colic and laudanum (a form of opium) for teething.

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1. A teaspoon of laudanum should put him to sleep.

2. The laudanum will help ye sleep through this trying time.

3. This laudanum is diluted somewhat with burdock, so you can continue to function.

4. Well, Wyatt, I couldn't find a single store that had laudanum anywhere.

5. Today, laudanum is recognized as addictive and is strictly regulated and controlled as such throughout most of the world.

6. Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine).