/in tok"si keuhnt/ , n.
1. an intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs.
adj.
2. intoxicating or exhilarating: the clear, intoxicant air of the mountains.
[ 1860-65; intoxicant- (s. of intoxicans ), prp. of intoxicare to poison. See IN- 2 , TOXICANT ]