(n.) A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kesari powder, calamus oil, palm drink, toddy and Kewra essence were found to be strongly mutagenic; garlic, palm oil, arrack, onion and pyrolysed portions of bread toast, chicory powder were weakly mutagenic, while tamarind and turmeric were not.
Intoxicant
Definition:
(n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the contrary, a plant with a THC level below 50 per cent of the cannabinoids and 0.3 per cent of the dried substance, in addition to a low level of total cannabinoids, has low intoxicant potential and can be used in industry for the production of oil and rope.
(2) Concomitant abuse of other intoxicants, especially alcohol, was frequently seen (48.5%).
(3) These results, together with those from other studies, suggest that the disordering of membrane lipids by ethanol and other intoxicant-anesthetic drugs is an important factor in the inhibition of sodium channel function by these drugs.
(4) The preliminary and limited study was made in an area where the metallic spray paints are used as an intoxicant by a significant percentage of the student-population.
(5) In the case of intoxication with Paraquat or Paracetamol, there is a negative correlation between the amount of removed intoxicant and the survival: death is likely to occur when the procedure has been very productive.
(6) (Venomous fishes, having poison glands and traumagenic spines, etc., are of no direct concern as oral intoxicants.
(7) There was no correlation between socio-economic level and use of intoxicants.
(8) These findings are inconsistent with any simple adrenergic mechanism in the mediation of the intoxicant effect of ethanol.
(9) In all patients there was a reluctance to admit that butane vapour was in use as an intoxicant immediately prior to the injury.
(10) Although methyl iodide is a rare form of intoxicant, its manifestations are similar to that of poisoning with the other monohalomethanes that are not uncommon.
(11) The prophylactic committee, PAARISA, issues informative campaigns about intoxicants, the effects of which are assessed by means of investigations such as this.
(12) Half of the charts were reviewed before and half were reviewed after June 1986, when Connecticut enacted PA86-345, a law changing court rules of evidence so that the analysis by a hospital of a patient's blood could be used to establish probable cause for driving while under the influence of an intoxicant.
(13) Variables that may alter the efficacy of charcoal therapy include the preparation and dose of charcoal used, the intoxicants involved, stomach contents, the gastrointestinal pH, concurrently administered materials, and time from toxin ingestion to charcoal administration.
(14) The histopathological symptoms of the various organs further demonstrated that internal injury in liver and kidney was also an important feature of the intoxicants as well as external damage, especially the particles observed around the gills.
(15) This procedure has been shown to achieve high clearance rates of most common intoxicants, and case reports have claimed that its application has been, on occasion, life-saving.
(16) Alcohol is the favoured intoxicant of European man and his descendants overseas.
(17) Intentional use of gasoline as an intoxicant has been frequently reported in diverse clinical literature.
(18) Therefore, while nimodipine may alter alcohol pharmacokinetics through its interaction(s) with the genetic characteristics of the individual animal, the ability of this calcium slow channel blocking agent to enhance the psychotropic effects of alcohol cannot be due to altered absorption or elimination of the intoxicant.
(19) While the intoxicant effect of alcohol depends on the quantity in the circulatory blood level, the toxic effects, particularly in the liver, depend largely on the total dose and are independent of the speed of absorption into the blood.
(20) When you take a Vipassana course, you agree to abide by five precepts: no killing, no stealing, no lying, no sexual misconduct and no intoxicants.