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henbane
[ hen-beyn ]
noun
- an Old World plant, Hyoscyamus niger, of the nightshade family, having sticky, hairy fetid foliage and greenish-yellow flowers, and possessing narcotic and poisonous properties especially destructive to domestic fowls.
henbane
/ ˈhɛnˌbeɪn /
noun
- a poisonous solanaceous European plant, Hyoscyamus niger, with sticky hairy leaves and funnel-shaped greenish flowers: yields the drug hyoscyamine
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The clear, colorless distillate had an alkaline reaction, and an odor resembling henbane or hemlock.
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He prepared a boiled oil of hyoscyamus, or henbane, in the usual way, with common oil.
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Small doses of tincture of henbane have also often a like effect.
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Here he found Henbane Dwining, on whom it was his hard fate to depend for consolation in both respects.
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"Nay, it is only worthy Master Henbane Dwining," answered one of the sibyls.
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