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Wolf's bane   /wʊlfs beɪn/   Listen
Wolf's bane

noun
1.
Poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock.  Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolfbane, wolfsbane.






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"Wolf's bane" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the catechism, who, in Goodman Brown's fantasy of the witches' revel in the forest, joins him on his way thither, and croaks over the loss of her broomstick, which was "all anointed with the juice of small-age and cinquefoil and wolf's bane—" "Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe," says another shape.—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.



Words linked to "Wolf's bane" :   aconite, wolfsbane



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