Read full poem →But the _Bride of Abydos_ was a tonic as well as a styptic. Like the
_Giaour_, it embodied a personal experience, and recalled "a country
Dictionary Entry
A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
In a Sentence
“We used to brew a tonic from a particular kind of root.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. toniccontraction tonicchord tonicneck tonictonic generalizedtonic hairtonic general
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Poetry examples for “tonic”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.