Usually means: Pain-relieving, fever-reducing opium compound.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word Dover's powder:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dover's powder: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dover's powder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Dover's powder, Dover's powder: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Dover's powder: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dover's powder: Wordnik
  6. Dover's powder: Wiktionary
  7. Dover's powder: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Dover's powder, dover's powder, dovers powder: Dictionary.com
  9. Dover's powder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dover's Powder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Dover's powder: Rhymezone
  12. Dover's Powder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. dovers powder: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dover's powder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Dover's powder: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dover's powder: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dover's powder)

noun:  (medicine, dated) A powder of ipecac and opium, formerly used to treat colds and fevers.


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