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Curare (medicine) and dock(4) (iou)


Curare (medicine)


curare
<drug> Curare alkaloids are the active ingredients of arrow poisons used by South American Indians.

Alkaloids that have muscle relaxant properties because they block motor end plate transmission, acting as competitive antagonists for acetylcholine.


dock(4) (iou)



dock noun4. L16.
[Prob. orig. a cant word and identical with Flemish dok fowl-pen, rabbit-hutch.]
The enclosure in a courtroom in which the prisoner is placed during a criminal trial. Orig., one filled with prisoners whose trial was scheduled for the day (see bail-dock s.v. BAIL noun2).
in the dock fig. under scrutiny or interrogation for some suspected misdeed.
Comb.: dock brief a brief handed in court directly to a barrister selected from those present by a prisoner in the dock (instead of through the agency of a solicitor).
? Hardly known before E19 exc. in bail-dock.