Vaccine

Definition of vaccine:

part of speech: noun

Virus, or poison, obtained from cows affected with a disease called cowpox, or vaccinia, and used to prevent smallpox; loosely, any substance used for inoculation against disease.

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to, or derived from, cows, or from vaccination.

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to, or obtained from, cows or cowpox.

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to or derived from cows.

Usage examples for vaccine:

• He began eating, while behind him I glimpsed Marcelina moving down the hall, carrying more trays of vaccine and headed out toward the vestibule again. "Life Blood", Thomas Hoover.

• Ask this question of a Homoeopathist, and he will answer by referring to the effects produced by a very minute portion of vaccine matter, or the extraordinary diffusion of odors. "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).

• Have you fresh vaccine "Miss McDonald", Mary J. Holmes.

• At the end of that time the Veiientines, by letting loose herds of cattle like the Vaccine which one still sees wandering in that part of the Campagna, drew them into an ambuscade, and they were all cut off to a man. "Walks in Rome", Augustus J.C. Hare.