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excitant(dictionary)

freestone (iou) and excitant (iou)


freestone (iou)



freestone noun. ME.
[formed as FREE adjective + STONE noun; in sense 1 translating Old French franche pere, Anglo-Latin lapis liber lit. 'stone of superior quality': see FRANK adjective1.]
Any of various fine-grained sandstones or limestones that can be cut or sawn easily. Also, a slab or piece of such stone. ME.
In full freestone peach, freestone nectarine. A kind of peach or nectarine in which the stone becomes loose when the fruit is ripe. E19.

excitant (iou)



excitant adjective & noun. E17.
[from EXCITE + -ANT1, perh. after French excitant.]
(An agent) that excites or stimulates.
A. John The sea air is known to be an excitant. Nature The central excitant action of d-amphetamine.
'excitancy noun the property of being (an) excitant M19.