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Definition of Allayers
1. allayer [n] - See also: allayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allayers
Literary usage of Allayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library World (1905)
"Time and labour is also saved, as no scrubbing or damping of floors is needed
where these allayers are used, only occasional sweeping with a hard broom, ..."
2. The BookmanPopular culture (1906)
"... Ontario, to avoid the evils of narcotics, pain allayers, sedatives, and
unbalanced coal tar products* so commonly used and prescribed by physicians. ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... hand brought it in ; use good endeavour, such foresight and wariness as may
provide for competency, prevent indigence and want, two great allayers of ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1868)
"I had taken bitters and tonics, iron and bismuth, morphine and other allayers of
nervous excitement. I had for weeks steadily dosed myself three times daily ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"Again, some of them are more actively poisonous than others, while others are
powerful allayers of pain. ..."
6. The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions: To which is by James Johnson (1827)
"It is well known to surgeons that the nitrate of silver is one of the most powerful
allayers of irritability, when applied externally to painful and ..."
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