Question

strychnine The pleasant surprise of finding that somebody thinks they are also God's creatures makes them feel that it is not such a bad little world after all, and they pour their dose of strychnine back into the bottle and go out into the sunlit street through the door instead of, as they had planned, through the seventh-storey window.

Accepted Answer

n. A bitter and highly poisonous compound obtained from nux vomica (and similar plants). From Over Seventy, The Best of Wodehouse, p. 786b

Word	strychnine
Definition	n. A bitter and highly poisonous compound obtained from nux vomica (and similar plants).
Sentence	The pleasant surprise of finding that somebody thinks they are also God's creatures makes them feel that it is not such a bad little world after all, and they pour their dose of strychnine back into the bottle and go out into the sunlit street through the door instead of, as they had planned, through the seventh-storey window.
Source	From Over Seventy, The Best of Wodehouse, p. 786b

Strychnine N Bitter Highly Poisonous Compound Obtained Nux