The Collaborative International Dictionary
love-potion \love-potion\ n. a fabled drink credited with magical power; it can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.
Syn: philter, philtre, love-philter, love-philtre.
WordNet
n. a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it [syn: philter, philtre, love-philter, love-philtre]
Usage examples of "love-potion".
From sunfall till the setting of Scorpio, which occurred well after midnight at that season, it had been my duty to tend the gradual inspissation of a decoction of scarabs, much favored by Mior Lumivix in the compounding of his most requested love-potions.
So he is a sorcerer who administers a love-potion to all the women, and befools them with his handsome, saucy face.
The rusty taxi-cab clattered down the spine of the city and the driver told me what was wrong with Cuba, and we went past the silent skyscrapers, kosher pizzerias, glass-fronted banks, bagel factories, Polish gymnasiums with belt-vibrators for rent, pharmacies selling love-potions and roach-killers, and all-night supermarkets where frail young men were buying canned rattlesnake.