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Wearing a turban. " A malignant and a turbaned Turk." Shak.

Wanting a band or string; unfastened. [Obs.] Shak.

Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum).

nious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.

manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.

Bugbane.

To clothe with a caftan. [R.] The turbaned and caftaned damsel. Sir W. Scott.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

See Henbane. [Obs.] Shak.

g. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used by the Indians. -- Hemp agrimony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe (Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset. -- Hemp nettle, a plant of the genus Galeopsis…

Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Actæa spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. -- Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. Dr. Prior. --…

An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.

An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as…

A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.