tonic
tonik
definition
noun
Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash.
a medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigor or well-being.
Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic .
the first note in a scale that, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music.
adjective
The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal tonic formulas.
giving a feeling of vigor or well-being; invigorating.
At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass.
relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale.
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Dang Quai is one of the most popular Chinese 'tonic' herbs for women.
The range features a cleansing gel, 'tonic' lotion, facial mask, day lotion and concentrate and a night gel as well as a blemish control stick and cream.
His letters mention ‘excellent spirits’ and 'tonic' air full of wonderful odours.
And someone told me I should have a gin and 'tonic' .
Very, very expensive - the last time I went, I paid £7 for a gin and 'tonic' .
The boy brings us vodka and 'tonic' which we drink on the balcony.
However, compared to diet cola or sugar-charged 'tonic' or lemonade, soda water wins by a mile.
The Chinese sometimes include zhu ling (they use the sclerotium rather than the fruiting body) as an ingredient in herbal 'tonic' formulas.
The former is designated a slow twitch muscle fiber, and the latter as slow 'tonic' muscle fiber.
This clinic uses a special 'tonic' that is meant to stall the growth of the cancer cells.
After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the 'tonic' minor.
Their usual intonation pattern is a rising tone on and after the 'tonic' syllable, but, when rhetorical or emphatic, they are said with a falling tone.
This sea change in music distribution is already upon us, and could provide the 'tonic' for the revival of those beleaguered music companies.
He is definitely a 'tonic' in this depressing age of faceless conductors.
Unphosphorylated, attached cross-bridges in 'tonic' mammalian smooth muscle have a very slow rate of release of ADP.
Spontaneous carbonation or bubbles that sprung from natural mineral springs were believed to relieve common ailments with their 'tonic' properties.
The food certainly tasted wonderful and was the perfect 'tonic' before the long flight home.
The sight of the team's captain leading the side out may provide just the 'tonic' needed after weeks of bad fortune.
For a chef at the top of his game, his humility is a 'tonic' .
This illustrates the essential place of the closure of the pylorus by 'tonic' contraction in the prevention of such reflux.
Yes, I know that the 'tonic' has sugar in it (you can, of course, use diet), but with this quantity divided among eight it isn't that much per person.
Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a 'tonic' herb.
I can't believe it - it was the perfect 'tonic' after my heart operation.
Contrition isn't much in fashion these days, but it's still a 'tonic' for the guilty soul - and who amongst us doesn't bear regrets for at least a few decisions.
The first of these sentences, bars 1 to 9, unequivocally secures D as the 'tonic' .
The 'tonic' contractions, in contrast, clearly regulate the emptying of fluids from the stomach.
But it is neither a variation on one of the old iron supplements nor is it a food, although its adherents say it has 'tonic' properties and you do apply it to the body.
The places that we see, these slow 'tonic' muscle fibres, are almost the exact places where the muscles are shaping the surface of the tongue, and shaping them to do the shapes that we know are producing our speech.
Milk thistle extract - long used as a liver 'tonic' in European folk medicine - may be a far better nutritional supplement than its acclaimed herbal cousins.
I like gin based drinks: Gin and 'tonic' is usually a safe bet in any bar.
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