noun. A bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried latex of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

noun. Something that numbs or stupefies.

noun. The inspissated juice of Papaver somniferum, a poppy cultivated from early antiquity for the sake of this product. See poppy and Papaver.

noun. The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.

noun. a low resort of opium smokers.

noun. A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

noun. Anything that numbs or stupefies.

noun. an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy

"It was difficult to believe that his subjection to opium could much longer resist the stings of his own conscience, and the solicitations of his friends, as well as the pecuniary destitution to which his _opium habits_ had reduced him."

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