Associations to the word «Ratsbane»

Noun

1

Wiktionary

RATSBANE, noun. Rat poison; white arsenic.

Dictionary definition

RATSBANE, noun. A white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope