Crossword clues for henbane
henbane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Henbane \Hen"bane`\, n. [Hen + bane.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus ( Hyoscyamus 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A poisonous plant, (taxlink Hyoscyamus niger species noshow=1), used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin. 2 Any other plant of the genus ''Hyoscyamus''.
WordNet
n. poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine [syn: black henbane, stinking nightshade, Hyoscyamus niger]
Usage examples of "henbane".
She drew back her nose in distaste, the fetid order of henbane confirming her suspicions.
They used to get it from henbane before they learned to put it together in a test tube more cheaply.
He took a meditative stride or two in the room, thinking without revulsion of the Countess Livia under a similitude of the bell of the plant henbane, and that his father had immunity from temptation because of the insensibility to beauty.
A dozen books stolen from the library lay open, and handfuls and jarfuls and heaps of materials were scattered about: quicksilver, henbane, brimstone, lead, creeping thyme, chalk, a fish fossilized in a slate, an egg, an acorn, sand, a bottle of rare air.
Let us hope that Eavesdrop will sketch off Henbane, and that Henbane will poison him for his trouble.
Setting aside the possibility of death by asphyxiation, Susanna finally narrowed her suspects down to three: monkshood, cowbane, and henbane.
The death of the herbal was one of the reasons why, with a few exceptions, the only plants which have retained their place in the Allopaths' pharmacopoeias are poisonous ones like Aconite, Belladonna, Henbane and the Opium Poppy.
Even in Garden-plots long fallow, and digged up, the seeds of Blattaria and yellow henbane, after twelve years burial have produced themselves again.
The only things that grew with any vigour were poisonous plants: henbane and black nightshade, hemlock and bittersweet.
Other constituents of Henbane are a glucosidal bitter principle called hyoscytricin, choline, mucilage, albumin, calcium oxalate and potassium nitrate.
A dozen books stolen from the library lay open, and handfuls and jarfuls and heaps of materials were scattered about: quicksilver, henbane, brimstone, lead, creeping thyme, chalk, a fish fossilized in a slate, an egg, an acorn, sand, a bottle of rare air.
In general Stephen Maturin was a poor sleeper, and since his youth he had turned to a number of allies against the intolerable boredom - and sometimes far, far worse than boredom, he having a most vulnerable heart - of insomnia: poppy and mandragora being the most obvious, seconded by the inspissated juice of aconite or of henbane, by datura stramonium, creeping skerit, leopard's bane.
It might be a weak draught of the henbane that Ragnhild used on her husband, or of the deadly nightshade berry.
This is henbane, a close relative of deadly nightshade with some of my own ingredients mixed in, but I'm usin' only enough to loosen his tongue and impair his judgement.
There was henbane, used by Doctor Crippen, and hemlock water dropwort, which Jake often used as a poultice for horses with sore backs.