ratsbanes
ratsbanes is the plural of ratsbane.
Meaning of ratsbane
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
- The Gadfly’s venom, fifty times distilled,
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