See also:

• HENBANE (Fr. jusquiaume, from the Gr. uoo'icuaµos, or hog's-bean; Ital. giusquiamo; Ger. Scliwarzes Bilsenkraut, Hiihnertod, Saubohue and Zigeuner-Korn or " gipsies' corn ")

HENBANE (Fr. jusquiaume, from the Gr. uoo'icuaµos, or hog's-See also:

• BEAN (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Bohne)

bean; Ital. giusquiamo; Ger. Scliwarzes Bilsenkraut, Hiihnertod, Saubohue and Zigeuner-Korn or " See also:

• GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

gipsies' See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn ")  , the See also:

• COMMON

common name of the plant Hyoscyamus See also:

• NIGER
• NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

niger, a member of the natural See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• SOLANACEAE

Solanaceae, indigenous to See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, found-See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild in See also:

• WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste places, on rubbish about villages and old castles, and cultivated for medicinal use in various counties in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south and See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . It occurs also in central and See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and in western See also:

• ASIA

Asia extending to See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and See also:

• SIBERIA

Siberia, and has See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long been naturalized in the See also:

• UNITED

United States . There are two forms of the plant, an See also:

• ANNUAL

annual and a biennial, which See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring indifferently from the same See also:

• CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop of See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed—the one growing on during summer to a height of from r to 2 ft., and flowering and perfecting seed; the other producing the first See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season only a tuft of See also:

• RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

radical leaves, which disappear in See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter, leaving under- ground a thick fleshy See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root, from the See also:

• CROWN

crown of which arises in spring a branched flowering See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem, usually much taller and more tiigorous than the flowering stems of the annual See also:

• PLANTS

plants . The biennial See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is that which is considered See also:

• OFFICINAL

officinal . The radical leaves of this biennial plant spread out See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat on all sides from the crown of the root; they are ovate-oblong, acute, stalked, and more or less incisely-toothed, of a greyish-See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, and covered with viscid hairs; these leaves perish at the approach of winter . The flowering stem pushes up from the root-crown in spring, ultimately reaching from 3 to 4 ft. in height, and as it grows becoming branched, and furnished with alternate sessile leaves, which are stem-clasping, oblong, unequally-lobed, clothed with glandular clammy hairs, and of a dull See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey-green, the whole plant having a powerful nauseous odour . The See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers are shortly-stalked, the See also:

• LOWER

lower ones growing in the See also:

• FORK (Lat. furca)

fork of the branches, the upper ones sessile in one-sided leafy spikes which are rolled back at the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top before flowering, the leaves becoming smaller upwards and taking the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of bracts . The flowers have an See also:

• URN (Lat. urna, either from root of urere, to burn, being made of burnt clay, or connected with urceus, Gr. I5pxa, jar)

urn-shaped calyx which persists around the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and is strongly veined, with five stiff, broad, almost prickly lobes; these, when the soft See also:

• MATTER

matter is removed by maceration, form very elegant specimens when associated with leaves prepared in a similar way . The corollas are obliquely See also:

• FUNNEL (through an O. Fr. founil, found in Breton, from Lat. infundibulum, that through which anything is poured, from fundere, to pour)

funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or See also:

• BUFF (from Fr. bu.ffie, a buffalo)

buff, marked with a See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close reticulation of See also:

• PURPLE

purple See also:

• VEINS

veins . The See also:

• CAPSULE (from the Lat. capsula, a small box)

capsule opens transversely by a See also:

• CONVEX

convex lid and contains numerous seeds . Both the leaves and the seeds are employed in See also:

• PHARMACY

pharmacy . The See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan doctors of India are accustomed to prescribe the seeds .

See also:

• HENBANE (Fr. jusquiaume, from the Gr. uoo'icuaµos, or hog's-bean; Ital. giusquiamo; Ger. Scliwarzes Bilsenkraut, Hiihnertod, Saubohue and Zigeuner-Korn or " gipsies' corn ")

Henbane yields a poisonous See also:

• ALKALOID

alkaloid, hyoscyamine, which is stated to have properties almost identical with those of atropine, from which it differs in being more soluble in See also:

• WATER

water . It is usually obtained in an amorphous, scarcely ever in a crystalline See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state . Its properties have been investigated in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany by T . Husemann, Schroff, See also:

• HAHN, AUGUST (1792–1863)

Hahn, &c . Hohn finds its chemical See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition expressed by C18H2sN,Oa . (Compare Hellmann, Beitrdge zur Kenntnis der physiolog. il'irkung See also:

• DES

des Hyoscyamins, &c., See also:

• JENA

Jena, 1874.) In small and repeated doses henbane has been found to have a tranquillizing effect upon persons affected by severe See also:

• NERVOUS

nervous irritability . In poisonous doses it causes loss of speech, distortion and See also:

• PARALYSIS, or PALSY (from Gr. aapal,6a , to relax; Wycliffe has palesy, and another old form of the word is parlesy)

paralysis . In the form of See also:

• EXTRACT (from Lat. extrahere, to draw out)

extract or See also:

• TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain)

tincture it is a valuable remedy in the hands of a medical See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, either as an See also:

• ANODYNE (from Gr. av-, privative, and oSi vo, pain)

anodyne, a hypnotic or a sedative . The extract of henbane is See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich 'in nitrate of See also:

• POTASSIUM [symbol K (from kalium), atomic weight 39.114 0=16)]

potassium and other inorganic salts . The smoking of the seeds and capsules of henbane is noted in books as a somewhat dangerous remedy adopted by See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• PEOPLE

people for toothache . Accidental poisoning from henbane occasionally occurs, owing sometimes to the apparent edibility and wholesomeness of the root . See See also:

• BENTLEY, RICHARD (1662-1742)
• BENTLEY, RICHARD (1794-1871)

Bentley and Trumen, Medicinal Plants, 194 (188o) .

HENCHMAN, originally, probably, one who attended on a See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, a See also:

• GROOM

groom, and hence, like groom (q.v.), a See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of a sub-See also:

• ORDINATE

ordinate See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official in royal or See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble households . The first See also:

• PART

part of the word is the O . Eng. See also:

• HENGEST

hengest, a horse, a word which occurs in many See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, cf . Ger. and Dutch hengst . The word appears in the name, Hengest, of the Saxon chieftain (see HENGEST AND HORSA) and still survives in See also:

• ENGLISH

English in place and other names beginning with Hingst- or Hinx- . Henchmen, pages of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour or squires, rode or walked at the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of their See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in processions and the like, and appear in the English royal See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household from the 14th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century till See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth abolished the royal henchmen, known also as the " See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children of honour." The word was obsolete in English from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 17th century, and seems to have been revived through See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

Walter See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott, who took the word and its derivation, according to the New English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary, from See also:

• EDWARD

Edward Burt's Letters from a See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

Gentleman in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North of Scotlarnd, together with its erroneous derivation from " haunch." The word is, in this sense, used as synonymous with " See also:

• GILLIE (from the Gael. gille, Irish gille or giolla, a servant or boy)

gillie," the faithful See also:

• PERSONAL

personal follower of a Highland chieftain, the man who stands at his master's haunch," ready for any emergency . It is this sense that usually survives in See also:

• MODERN

modern usage of the word, where it is often used of an out-and-out adherent or See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan, ready to do anything .