Word Meanings - BELLADONNA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

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  See Blackamoor.
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  A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
• Black vomit
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• Whole-length
  Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
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  of Callosity
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  of Fruitery
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• Planted
  of Plant
• Blackener
  One who blackens.
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  A little plant.
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  The oorial.
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  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
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  Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
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  Alt. of Blackwash
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  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.

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