Anaesthetic
- n. That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.
- a. Capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents.
- a. Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.