m. a partic. drug used as a vermifuge (Embelia Ribes), [L.]
an alchemist, [L.]
N. of Garuḍa, [L.]
n. (sometimes following the gender of the word to which it refers) a medicine supposed to prevent old age and prolong life, an elixir, elixir vitae (also applied to the first fructifying rains), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
buttermilk, [L.]
poison, [L.]
long pepper (?), [L.]
the employment of mercury as a remedy or for magical purposes, [W.]