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Indian Drug (The)

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Tobacco.

“His breath compounded of strong English beere,

And thʹ Indian drug, would suffer none come neere.”


Taylor, the Water Poet (1630).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Incubus
Indenture
Independence
Independence Day (July 4th)
Independents
Index (The)
India Ink or Chinese ink
India Paper
India Proof
Indian Arrowroot
Indian Drug (The)
Indian File (In)
Indian Red
Indian Summer (The)
Indians
Indiarubber
Individualists
Indoors
Induction (Latin, the act of leading in)
Indulgence
Inertia