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Smelling salts   /smˈɛlɪŋ sɔlts/   Listen
Smelling salts

noun
1.
A pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness.





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"Smelling salts" Quotes from Famous Books



... after he had lost about forty thousand pounds and whilst the whole hotel was whispering about it, La Dolciquita walked composedly into his bedroom. He was too drunk to recognize her, and she sat in his arm-chair, knitting and holding smelling salts to her nose—for he was pretty far gone with alcoholic poisoning—and, as soon as he was able ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford
... the guardian had gone to Jane's assistance and was pressing a bottle of smelling salts to the nostrils of Janus Grubb. Janus twisted his head uneasily, as though to get away from the pungent odor ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... you smelling salts?" she inquired calmly of the frightened circle, "or perhaps you have a ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester


Words linked to "Smelling salts" :   formulation, sal volatile, preparation, spirits of ammonia


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