Pepper is a sternutatory substance. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To procure the expulsion of the secundines, apply a sternutatory, and shut the nostrils and mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgi-tant, a sternutatory, and a vesicant all in one. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Pizarro found chewers in Peru, but it was in the country discovered by Cabral that the great sternutatory was originally found. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Stewart in his admirable paper on snuff gives much useful information in regard to the universal custom of using it as well as its origin and distinguished uses of the great sternutatory. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
He had seen me in a tandem, and at that moment was seized with a violent fit of sneezing — (sternutatory paroxysm he called it) — at the conclusion of which I was a mile down the Woodstock Road. From Wordnik.com. [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference
She is a regular old tub of a boat; the cabins are profitably fitted with three beds in each, one above the other; the consequence is, that if you wish to sneeze at night, you must turn on your side, or you'll break your nose against the bed above you in the little jerk that usually accompanies the sternutatory process. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Dr. Dana found the powdered root powerfully sternutatory. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The powder of the leaves is said to be a very active sternutatory. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
It acts as a sternutatory, and the fresh juice has been employed as an external application in some cutaneous affections. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
They were mostly arsenic compounds and were not only sternutatory but also toxic, producing the after effects of arsenic poisoning. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
The last class, the sternutatory substances, produced the familiar sneezing effect which was accompanied by intense pain and irritation of the nose, throat, and respiratory channels. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
The French Physiological Classification; -- Asphyxiating Substances; -- Toxic Substances; -- Chemicals or poison gases were either asphyxiating, toxic, lachrymatory, vesicant, or sternutatory. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
He had seen me in a tandem, and at that moment was seized with a violent fit of sneezing -- (sternutatory paroxysm he called it) -- at the conclusion of which I was a mile down the Woodstock Road. From Wordnik.com. [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference
This, like the former, is a very powerful sternutatory; when the powdered leaves are used, the discharge from the nose will sometimes last for three days, hence it has been applied in this way with great advantage in stubborn disorders of the head, palsies, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
By altering the construction of the 10.5 c.m. universal shell for light field howitzers, the ` N. i 'projectile was created in the form of 10.5 c.m. shrapnel, the bullets of which were embedded in a sternutatory powder (double salts of dianisidine) well stamped down, instead of an explosive. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
(lachrymatory, sternutatory, and, above all, vesicatory, of which yperite is the most dangerous); second, asphyxiants of which the most deadly is phosgene; third, those affecting the nervous system. From Wordnik.com. [Ferdinand Édouard Buisson - Nobel Lecture] Reference
It is most unpleasantly sternutatory. '. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The petioles act as a sternutatory. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
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