Usually means: Primary ingredient in mixed drinks.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tonic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tonic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tonic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tonic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tonic, tonic: Wordnik
  7. tonic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tonic: Wiktionary
  9. tonic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tonic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tonic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -tonic, tonic: Dictionary.com
  13. tonic (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tonic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tonic (Medeski Martin & Wood album), Tonic (Tonic album), Tonic (band), Tonic (disambiguation), Tonic (film), Tonic (music), Tonic (music venue), Tonic (physiology), Tonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tonic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tonic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tonic: Rhymezone
  19. Tonic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tonic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tonic: Free Dictionary
  22. tonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tonic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tonic: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. -tonic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tonic (music), tonic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tonic (music), tonic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tonic: Natural Health glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  6. Tonic (music), -tonic, tonic: Medical dictionary
  7. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TONIC: Acronym Finder

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tonic, tonic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. tonic: The Folk File
  4. tonic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tonic: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See tonically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (physics, pathology) Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
adjective:  Restorative, curative or invigorating.
adjective:  (medicine, neuroscience) In a state of continuous unremitting action.
noun:  A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
noun:  Tonic water.
noun:  (US, Eastern Massachusetts, dated) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
noun:  (figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
verb:  (medicine, archaic) To restore or invigorate.
adjective:  (music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
adjective:  Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
adjective:  Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
noun:  (music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
noun:  (music) The triad built on the tonic note.
noun:  (phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

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