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Webster 1828 Edition

Hippomane

HIP'POMANE

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Noun.

[Gr. a horse, and madness.]

1.

A sort of poisonous substance, used anciently as a philter or love-charm.

2.

In botany, the manchineel-tree, which abounds with a milky juice which is acrid, caustic and poisonous.