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henbane /ˈhɛnbeɪn /noun1A poisonous Eurasian plant of the nightshade family, with sticky hairy leaves and an unpleasant smell.- Hyoscyamus niger, family Solanaceae.
All that in a happier field and a purer air would expand into virtue and germinate into usefulness, is thus converted into henbane and deadly nightshade....- Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.
- He also identified certain plants with pharmacological action such as mandragora or nightshade, opium and henbane and gave various recipes for inducing both anesthesia and analgesia before surgery.
1.1 [mass noun] A narcotic drink prepared from henbane.Dissolve in the drink half a dram each of darnel, fumitory, opium and henbane and half a carat of myrobalan....- With henbane, you would either wake up three or four days later without a leg, or not at all.
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