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Hyoscyamine :: Hyoscyamine (n.) An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc..

Wolfsbane :: Wolfsbane (n.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite..

Bane :: Bane (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.

Urbanize :: Urbanize (v. t.) To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish..

Hebenon :: Hebenon (n.) See Henbane.

Leopard''s Bane :: Leopard's bane () A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia..

Unbaned :: Unbaned (a.) Wanting a band or string; unfastened.

Cicuta :: Cicuta (n.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known..

Hyoscine :: Hyoscine (n.) An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance..

Oleander :: Oleander (n.) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose..

Fleabane :: Fleabane (n.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria..

Poisonous :: Poisonous (a.) Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Dogbane :: Dogbane (n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs..

Henbane :: Henbane (n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus..

Ratsbaned :: Ratsbaned (a.) Poisoned by ratsbane.

Baneful :: Baneful (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

Bugbane :: Bugbane (n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

Nitrobenzene :: Nitrobenzene (n.) A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol..

Ratsbane :: Ratsbane (n.) Rat poison; white arsenic.

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