sena
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sena
Hindi
Example Sentences
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In Favre’s Malay-French Dictionary daun sena-maki is translated feuilles de séné, no notice being taken of the last word; but Shakespear’s Hindustani Dictionary has sena makk-i, “senna of Mecca.”
From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Sir William Edward Maxwell
It was a Saturday evening when Bobby finally received Abel's consent for him to go to the sena seal hunting.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace
Ten grains of calomel given in small pills, then infusion of sena with oil.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Cathartics of the mild kind, as sena, jalap, neutral salts, manna.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
This fever continued, though with remissions, for two or three weeks; and the patient repeatedly lost blood, used cathartics with calomel and sena, and had frequent antimonial and saline medicines.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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