Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun a genus of dicotyledonous gamopetalous plants, of the natural order Solanaceæ type of the tribe Hyoscyameæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.
- noun (Med.) The leaves of the black henbane (
Hyoscyamus niger ), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
genus Hyoscamus ofhenbanes . - noun medicine The
leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used inneuralgic andpectoral troubles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of poisonous herbs: henbane
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Symposiacs 2004
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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.
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On the other hand not a few apply the word to the henbane (hyoscyamus niger) so much used in mediæval Europe.
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“Bhang” (almost a generic term applied to hellebore, etc.) may be hyoscyamus or henbane.
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Belladonna, camphor, hyoscyamus and opium, are among the narcotics in common use.
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_ -- Identical with those of belladonna and hyoscyamus, the
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I have worked with the hyoscyamine of both Merck and Trommsdorff, as well as with a product which I obtained from hyoscyamus seeds myself.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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Take extract of hyoscyamus, thirty grains; extract stramonium, ten grains; quinine, twenty grains; morphine, two grains.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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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.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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-- Agents which depress the vital energies, without destroying life; as aconite, digitalis, hellebore, hydrochloric acid, hyoscyamus, opium, and tartrate of antimony.
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