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Hebenon

Hebenon \Heb"e*non\, n. See Henbane. [Obs.]
--Shak.

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hebenon

n. (context obsolete English) henbane

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Hebenon

Hebenon (or hebona) is a botanical substance described in William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet. The identity and nature of the poison has been a source of speculation for centuries.

Usage examples of "hebenon".

It is more venemous than the adder, it is more destructive than hebenon or madragora.

Sleeping within my orchard, as my custom was in the afternoon, on my secure hour thy uncle stole with cursed juice of hebenon in a vial, and did pour the leprous distilment into mine ears, that curdled my blood.

So will marijuana, magic mushrooms, coca shrubs, dilly beans, pseudopoon, rakka, hebenon, and a host of other recreational narcotic plants.