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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. a genus of dicotyledonous gamopetalous plants, of the natural order Solanaceæ type of tribe Hyoscyameæ. They have a tubular-campanulate calyx, an infundibuli-form corolla with an oblique limb and imbricated unequal lobes, and a capsule opening by a median transverse circumcision, the top falling off like a lid. They are herbs with the leaves sinuate-dentate or incised, and yellowish flowers in usually 1-sided leafy spikes. About 10 species are known, natives of the Mediterranean region and central Asia. H. niger is the henbane or black henbane. See cut under
henbane .
Wiktionary
- n. botany Any of the genus Hyoscamus of henbanes.
- n. medicine The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectoral troubles.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.
- n. (Med.) The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. genus of poisonous herbs: henbane
Etymologies
- From the genus name. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ammonius too bade us not be afraid, for he would not reply to any of our discourses; and Trypho likewise urging me to propose something, I said: To demonstrate that the ivy is cold is not so proper a task for me as Trypho, for he often useth coolers and binders; but that proposition, that wine in which ivy berries have been is more inebriating, is not true; for that disturbance which it raiseth in those that drink it is not so properly called drunkenness as alienation of mind or madness, such as hyoscyamus and a thousand other things that set men beside themselves usually produce.”
““Bhang” (almost a generic term applied to hellebore, etc.) may be hyoscyamus or henbane.”
“On the other hand not a few apply the word to the henbane (hyoscyamus niger) so much used in mediæval Europe.”
“I have worked with the hyoscyamine of both Merck and Trommsdorff, as well as with a product which I obtained from hyoscyamus seeds myself.”
“Lupulin, valerian, valerianate of zinc, and hyoscyamus (or with a much less tendency to derange the stomach, _hyoscyamin_ in 1/10 grain doses) all have their value in the less violent cases or toward the close of the struggle.”
“-- Agents which depress the vital energies, without destroying life; as aconite, digitalis, hellebore, hydrochloric acid, hyoscyamus, opium, and tartrate of antimony.”
“Belladonna, camphor, hyoscyamus and opium, are among the narcotics in common use.”
“_ -- Identical with those of belladonna and hyoscyamus, the”
“Take extract of hyoscyamus, thirty grains; extract stramonium, ten grains; quinine, twenty grains; morphine, two grains.”
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“They are in that drawer, -- laudanum, morphine, hyoscyamus, and all the drowsy sirups, -- little drops, but soaring like a fog, and wrapping the whole world in a dull ache, with no salient sting to catch a groan on.”
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