ratsbane

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8

Definition of ratsbane

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Rat poison; white arsenic.
    “The Gadfly’s venom, fifty times distilled, Is mingled with the vomit of the Leech, In due proportion, and black ratsbane, which That very Rat, who, like the Pontic tyrant, Nurtures himself on poison, dare not touch;—”
    “Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.”

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Etymology

From rat's + bane. Compare henbane.

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