hippomane

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HIP'POMANE, 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.
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