"sleeping draught" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sleeping draughts [plural], sleeping draft [alternative]
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  1. (dated) A liquid medicine that induces sleep. Tags: dated Translations (liquid medicine that induces sleep): dwale (Middle English), środek nasenny w płynie [masculine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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