Word of the Day - Tonic

tonic

/ˈtɒnɪk/
noun
1 A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being.
1.1 Something with an invigorating effect.
2 short for tonic water
3 Music - The first note in a scale which, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music.

adjective
1 Giving a feeling of vigour or well-being; invigorating.
2 Music - Relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale.
3
Phonetics - Denoting or relating to the syllable within a tone group
that has greatest prominence, because it carries the main change of
pitch.
4 Relating to or restoring normal tone to muscles or other organs.
4.1 Physiology Relating to, denoting, or producing continuous muscular contraction.

Origin
Mid 17th century: from French tonique, from Greek tonikos ‘of or for stretching’, from tonos (see tone).

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Louie was laconic
After Halloween demonic.
To raise up his and other spirits
He decided to take a tonic.