"sweet spirits of nitre" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "sweet spirits of nitre (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmacy",
          "orig": "en:Pharmacy",
          "parents": [
            "Medicine",
            "Pharmacology",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Biochemistry",
            "All topics",
            "Chemistry",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Estelle Mendell, “The Family Medicine Chest”, Good Housekeeping vol. 5, https://books.google.com/books?id=hFU7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=%22sweet+spirits+of+nitre%22&hl=en page 62]",
          "text": "In cases of fever a teaspoonful of sweet spirits of nitre in a glass of water taken in small sips at short intervals is most excellent."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, “F.D.A. Bans Sweet Spirits of Nitre As Ineffective and Possibly Fatal“, The New York Times, October 12, 1980, page 65",
          "text": "The Food and Drug Administration says it is ordering an old-fashioned remedy, sweet spirits of nitre, off the over-the-counter market because it can be fatal to infants and because of a lack of proved effectiveness."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old-fashioned remedy, having ethyl nitrite as a main ingredient, that used to be available as an over the counter drug."
      ],
      "id": "en-sweet_spirits_of_nitre-en-noun-9dVlCq7O",
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacy",
          "pharmacy"
        ],
        [
          "old-fashioned",
          "old-fashioned"
        ],
        [
          "remedy",
          "remedy"
        ],
        [
          "over the counter",
          "over the counter"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pharmacy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacy) An old-fashioned remedy, having ethyl nitrite as a main ingredient, that used to be available as an over the counter drug."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sweet spirit of nitre"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sweet spirits of nitre"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "sweet spirits of nitre (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Pharmacy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Estelle Mendell, “The Family Medicine Chest”, Good Housekeeping vol. 5, https://books.google.com/books?id=hFU7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=%22sweet+spirits+of+nitre%22&hl=en page 62]",
          "text": "In cases of fever a teaspoonful of sweet spirits of nitre in a glass of water taken in small sips at short intervals is most excellent."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, “F.D.A. Bans Sweet Spirits of Nitre As Ineffective and Possibly Fatal“, The New York Times, October 12, 1980, page 65",
          "text": "The Food and Drug Administration says it is ordering an old-fashioned remedy, sweet spirits of nitre, off the over-the-counter market because it can be fatal to infants and because of a lack of proved effectiveness."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old-fashioned remedy, having ethyl nitrite as a main ingredient, that used to be available as an over the counter drug."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacy",
          "pharmacy"
        ],
        [
          "old-fashioned",
          "old-fashioned"
        ],
        [
          "remedy",
          "remedy"
        ],
        [
          "over the counter",
          "over the counter"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pharmacy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacy) An old-fashioned remedy, having ethyl nitrite as a main ingredient, that used to be available as an over the counter drug."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sweet spirit of nitre"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sweet spirits of nitre"
}