hartshorn
See also: Hartshorn
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hartshorn (countable and uncountable, plural hartshorns)
- (countable) The antler of a hart, once used as a source of ammonia.
- (dated) An aqueous solution of ammonia; smelling salts.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
- Sophia, who had tottered along with much difficulty, sunk down in her chair; but by the assistance of hartshorn and water, she was prevented from fainting away...
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii:
- Lady Teazle seeing Sir Peter in such Danger—ran out of the Room in strong Hysterics—and Charles after her calling out for Hartshorn and Water!
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the antler of a hart
An aqueous solution of ammonia
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hartshorn (third-person singular simple present hartshorns, present participle hartshorning, simple past and past participle hartshorned)
- (transitive) To revive with hartshorn smelling salts.
- 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter 19:
- Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]