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Definition of Henbanes
1. henbane [n] - See also: henbane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Henbanes
Literary usage of Henbanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1891)
"The Alkaloidal Value of the Commercial henbanes. THE following is an abstract of
a paper by Mr. AW Gerrard, read at the recent British Pharmaceutical ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"... and henbanes, as mosquitoes smother lions.' And the fire-light began to gleam
and glitter on the black seas of melted velvet as the storm rose in her ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1892)
"Hyoscyamus niger, Linne—The Alkaloidal Value of Some Commercial henbanes.—Mr.
AW Gerrard has examined some French and German ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1878)
"... or henbanes (as some write them) North in the firmament, betokening a storme
to follow within '24 ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... out by these henbanes or petty dancers, as Foxe calls them, which must be very
considerable; as Button says, ' the stream in the element is like the ..."