Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Nostrum

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Nostrum


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(1):

(n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.

(2):

(n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.