Definition of "brucia" []

• Same as brucine. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Ricaduta a distanza di tempo volente o nolente la raccolgo, una forma contorta che mi brucia tra le mani:"
• "Of these nitrogenous alkaloids, even the nuts of the tree, which furnishes the most powerful, _swift_ poison of the world, contains but three -- the above-named strychnia, brucia, and ignatia -- principles shared in common with its pathological congener, the St. Ignatius bean."
• "I have pointed out the existence in opium of a convulsive poison congeneric with brucia."