| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.[Websters]. | |
| Adjective | 1. Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb erthinely.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (erthinely) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective erthine.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ERTHINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Erthine \Er"thine\, noun. [expression of Greek origin; in + nose: compare to the French expression errhin.]. (references) |
