ratsbane
ratsbane noun: rat poison; white arsenic.
Noun
ratsbane (countable and uncountable, plural ratsbanes)
- 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;—1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts - Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.1835, [Washington Irving], “Abbotsford”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 2), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 40–41
- The Gadfly’s venom, fifty times distilled,
ratsbane meaning in Telugu
ratsbane in Telugu
- ratsbane
- ఎలికపాషాణము elikapāṣāṇamu
Forms of ratsbane
| plural | ratsbanes |
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Origin of ratsbane
From rat's + bane. Compare henbane.
Questions about ratsbane
- What does ratsbane mean?
- Ratsbane means rat poison; white arsenic.
- What is ratsbane in Telugu?
- Ratsbane in Telugu is ఎలికపాషాణము (elikapāṣāṇamu). See Ratsbane meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is ratsbane?
- Ratsbane is a noun.
- What is the plural of ratsbane?
- The plural of ratsbane is ratsbanes.
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