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A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nigh…

[pl. Madonnas (naz).]

f the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden.

The first or chief female singer in an opera.

A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

e of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).

A prima donna.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.

l parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.

eric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

A mydriatic medicine or agent, as belladonna.

n in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.

white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). -- Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. -- Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. -- Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.