dulcamara

[Latin dulcis = sweet, and amarus bitter.] Bot.: Solanum dulcamara, a plant commonly called Bitter-sweet, or Deadly or Woody Nightshade. [BITTER-SWEET.] Pharm.: The dried young branches of Solanum dulcamara, order Solanaceae, Bitter-sweet, from in. digenous plants which have shed their leaves. They are light, hollow, cylindrical, about the thickne of a goose quill; bitter and subsequently sweetish to the taste. They are used to prepare Infusum dul camare, infusion of dulcamara. Dulcamara acts on the skin and kidneys, and is given in chronic skin diseases, as lepra and psoriasis.. dul-ca-mar-ě-tin, s . [Eng., ., dulcamar (a); sutf.- etin ( Chem .) (q. v.).] Chem.: C16H2606. Dulcamaretin and glucose are formed by the action of dilute acids on Dulcam arin. dul-căm-a-rin, s. [Eng., ., dulcamar ( a ); suff. in ( Chem.) (q. v.).] Chem. C2H24010 An amorphous substance ob tained from the stalks of Solanum dulcamara . It forms a yellow, transparent, resinous ma , which is sparingly soluble in ether, but readily in alcohol. dul-çāy-năs, s . [Sp.] The name of a larger sort of oboe, or small ba oon, "Se usa un genera de Dulçaynas que parecen nuestras Chirimias." [He used a sort of Dulçaynas which is like our ba oon.] Don Quixote . As it is supposed that the instrument was brought into Spain by the Moors, the word may be derived from the same root as the Egyptian Dalzimr, both instruments being of the oboe or reed kind. ( Stainer & Barrett .) *dülçe, v . t . [O. Fr., from Lat. dulcis =sweet.] To sweeten, to moderate, to soften. "Such asperity of the spirit should be dulced and appeased."-Holland: Pliny, bk. xxii., ch. xxiv. *dülçe, a. [O. Fr.) Sweet, pleasant, agreeable. *dülçe-lý, adv . [Eng. dulce; -ly.] Sweetly, pleasantly, agreeably. "To acc us to me them dulcely and pleasantly to the med. itacion thereof."-Sir T. More: Works, p. 1,215.