Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CAS'TO-RIN, or CAS'TO-RINE
CAS'TO-RIN, or CAS'TO-RINE, n.
An animal principle discovered in castor, and prepared by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquor. From this is deposited the Castorin. – Brande.
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