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calabash(encyclopedia)
calabash curare(medicine)
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loaf(1)(dictionary)
loaf(4)(dictionary)
loaf(2)(dictionary)

calabash curare (medicine) and sugar loaf (iou)


calabash curare (medicine)


calabash curare


(packed by Indians in hollow gourds), curare from Strychnos sp.; extremely poisonous; contains yohimbine, indole, and strychnine type alkaloids.


sugar loaf (iou)



sugar loaf noun phr. LME.
[from SUGAR noun + LOAF noun1.]
A moulded conical mass of hard refined sugar. LME.
transf. A thing having the shape of a sugar loaf; spec. (a) Hist. (in full sugar-loaf hat) a conical hat, pointed, rounded or flat at the top, worn during various periods until the early 19th cent.; (b) a high conical hill or mountain (also more fully sugar-loaf hill, sugar-loaf mountain). L16.
sugar-loafed adjective shaped like a sugar loaf E18.