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Potion vs Dwale - What's the difference?

potion | dwale |

As nouns the difference between potion and dwale

is that potion is a small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical while dwale is (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.

As verbs the difference between potion and dwale

is that potion is (obsolete) to drug while dwale is to mutter deliriously .

potion

English

(wikipedia potion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
  • He hoped to win the princess’s heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To drug.
  • (Speed)

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    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
  • References

    * * (Webster)

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