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Any of various plants that are or are supposed to be poisonous to rats.

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Usage examples (27)
  • Early in June Judith, walking in the wood, brought home the splendid red wood lily, and a cluster too of "ratsbane," with its flowers like a little crown of white wax.
  • If his Lordship had sent me an infusion of ratsbane in the loving-cup, I should have taken it much more kindly at his hands.
  • How many souls have they been the means of destroying by their ignorance and corrupt doctrine? preaching that which was no better for their souls than ratsbane to the...
  • Cossacks, galloped about in defiance of traps and ratsbane.
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