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Belladonna vs Dwale - What's the difference?

belladonna | dwale |

As nouns the difference between belladonna and dwale

is that belladonna is a plant, atropa belladonna , having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries; deadly nightshade while dwale is (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.

As a verb dwale is

to mutter deliriously .

belladonna

English

Noun

(wikipedia belladonna) (Atropa belladonna) (en noun)
  • a plant, Atropa belladonna , having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries; deadly nightshade
  • an alkaloid extracted from this plant, sometimes used medicinally, containing atropine

    • Quotations

    * (rfdate), , "My Women" [https://archive.is/20121204150452/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050613fa_fact] *:Cathy teetered downstairs on very high heels, her hair swept up in a disintegrating “brioche,” her eyes glistening with belladonna drops.

    Derived terms

    * belladonna lily * belladonnized, belladonized

    dwale

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale
    • To bedde goþ Aleyne and also John; / Þer nas na moore – hem nedede no dwale .
  • belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
  • * 1842 , J. van Voorst, The Phytologist , p. 595.
    • Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —
  • error, delusion
  • (heraldry) a sable or black color.

    • Verb

    (dwal)
  • To mutter deliriously

    • Related terms

    * dwaal — a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state * dwual — to be delirious

    References

    * * (Webster)

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