English-Thai Dictionary
hartshorn
N เขากวาง ตัวผู้ แอมโมเนียม คาร์บอเนต
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
HARTSHORN
n.The horn of the hart or male deer. The scrapings or raspings of this horn are medicinal, and used in decoctions, ptisans, etc. Hartshorn jelly is nutritive and strengthening. Hartshorn calcined by a strong and long continued heat, is changed into a white earth, which is employed in medicine as an absorbent. The salt of hartshorn is powerful sudorific, and hartshorn yields also a pungent volatile spirit. The jelly of hartshorn is simply gelatine; the earth remaining after calcination, is phosphate of lime; the salt and spirit of hartshorn are muriate of ammonia, with a little animal oil.
Hartshorn plantain, a species of Plantago.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
HARTSHORN
HARTSHORN Harts "horn `, n.
1. The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
2. Spirits of hartshorn (see below ); volatile salts. Hartshorn plantain (Bot. ), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus ); -- called also duck's-horn. Booth. -- Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. -- Salt of hartshorn (Chem. ), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem. ), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.
New American Oxford Dictionary
hartshorn
harts horn |ˈhärtsˌhôrn ˈhɑrtsˌhɔrn |(also spirit of hartshorn ) ▶noun archaic aqueous ammonia solution used as smelling salts, formerly prepared from the horns of deer. ORIGIN Old English heortes horn (see hart, horn ).
Oxford Dictionary
hartshorn
hartshorn |ˈhɑːtsˌhɔːn |(also spirit of hartshorn ) ▶noun [ mass noun ] archaic aqueous ammonia solution used as smelling salts, formerly prepared from the horns of deer. ORIGIN Old English heortes horn (see hart, horn ).
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