资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Erthine \Er"thine\, n. [Gr. ?; ? in + ?, ?, nose: cf. F.
   errhin.] (Med.)
   A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote
   discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. --Coxe. -- a. Causing or
   increasing secretion of nasal mucus.