Bĕ'zōar, n.

n. [Fr. bézoard, Per. bâd-zahr, the bezoar-stone, from bâd, wind, and zahr, poison, literally the wind of poison, i. e., that which, like the wind, disperses or drives away poison.] A calculous concretion found in the stomach of certain ruminant animals, formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote to poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases.

☞ Two kinds were particularly esteemed, the Bezoar orientale from India, and the Bezoar occidentale from Peru. The name has also been given to some artificial preparations for the same uses. Dunglison.

Bezoar mineral, an oxide of antimony, produced by distilling the nitrous acid several times to dryness from the sublimated muriate of antimony. Nicholson.