henbane
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.
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How to use henbane in a sentence
The clear, colorless distillate had an alkaline reaction, and an odor resembling henbane or hemlock.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron) | William Anderson SymeHe prepared a boiled oil of hyoscyamus, or henbane, in the usual way, with common oil.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsSmall doses of tincture of henbane have also often a like effect.
Here he found henbane Dwining, on whom it was his hard fate to depend for consolation in both respects.
The Fair Maid of Perth | Sir Walter Scott"Nay, it is only worthy Master henbane Dwining," answered one of the sibyls.
The Fair Maid of Perth | Sir Walter Scott
British Dictionary definitions for henbane
/ (ˈhɛnˌbeɪn) /
a poisonous solanaceous European plant, Hyoscyamus niger, with sticky hairy leaves and funnel-shaped greenish flowers: yields the drug hyoscyamine
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