Defn: A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
2. (Classical Myth.)
Defn: A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.
NARCOSIS
Nar*co"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. na`rkwsis. See Narcotic.] (Med.)
Defn: Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.
NARCOTIC
Nar*cot"ic, a. Etym: [F. narcotique, Gr. na`rkh numbness, torpor.]
(Med.)
Defn: Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
— Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
NARCOTIC
Nar*cot"ic, n. (Med.)
Defn: A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.
NARCOTICAL
Nar*cot"ic*al, a.