Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEL-PHIN'I-NA, or DEL-PHIN'I-A
DEL-PHIN'I-NA, or DEL-PHIN'I-A, n. [or DEL-PHI'NA, or DELPH'I-A, or DELPH'IN-INE, or DELPH'INE.]
A vegetable alkaloid discovered in the Delphinium staphysagria. Its taste is bitter and acrid. When heated it melts, but on cooling becomes hard and brittle like resin. – Ure. Brande.
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