Ratsbane
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ratsbane is a noun meaning Rat poison; white arsenic.
Meaning
Rat poison; white arsenic.
Example Sentences
Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.
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;—
Word Forms
- ratsbanes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ratticide, muricide, phenylsilatrane, pyrinuron, chlorophacinone, arsenicophagy.
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