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leopard's bane
Forms: 6 lyberdes, libardis, leopardes bayn(e, libardbain(e, -bayne, 7 lib(b)ard, libbard's bane, libbardsbane, 6– leopard's bane.
[See bane n.1 2 b.]
A plant of the genus Doronicum, esp. D. Pardalianches. Also applied to Arnica montana, Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris), etc.
1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 8 The one kynde [of Aconitum] is called Pardalianches, which we may call in englishe Libardbayne or one bery. 1551― Herbal i. B ij, Leopardes bayne layd to a scorpione maketh hyr vtterly amased and Num. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 739 Libardbain or Wolf-bain. 1609B. Jonson Masque Queens, Night-shade, moon-wort, libbard's bane. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 909 The venomous herb called Libbardsbane, or Wolf-wort. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 478 Leopard's-bane whose root is like a scorpion. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. (1794) 394 Leopard's-bane, a wild plant of the Alps, and now common among the perennials of the garden. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 137 When a more active stimulant is necessary, that of leopard's bane (arnica montana) may be found useful. 1882Garden 15 Apr. 247/1 The Leopard's-bane..grows in great patches in the woods. |