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Brewer's: Narwhal
Drinking-cups made of the bone of the narwhal used to be greatly valued, from the supposition that they counteracted the fatal effects of poison. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Brewer's: Negroni
A princess, a friend of Lucrezia di Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara. She invited to a banquet the nobles who had insulted her friend, and killed them with poisoned wine. (Donizetti: Lucrezia di…Brewer's: Locusta
This woman has become a byword for one who murders those she professes to nurse, or those whom it is her duty to take care of. She lived in the early part of the Roman empire, poisoned…Brewer's: Macamut
Sultan of Cambaya, who lived upon poison, with which he was so saturated that his breath or touch carried instant death. (Purchas.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Philopoemen
general of the Achæan league, made Epaminondas his model. He slew Mechanidas, tyrant of Sparta, and was himself killed by poison. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…Brewer's: Philosopher's Egg
(The). A preservative against poison, and a cure for the plague; a panacea. The shell of a new egg being pricked, the white is blown out, and the place filed with saffron or a yolk of an…Brewer's: Sigun'a
Wife of Loki. She nurses him in his cavern, but sometimes, as she carries off the poison which the serpents gorge, a portion drops on the god, and his writhings cause earthquakes. (…Brewer's: Barabas
The hero of Marlow's tragedy, The Jew of Malta. “A mere monster, brought in with a large painted nose ... He kills in sports, poisons whole nunneries, invents infernal machines. ... ” —C.…Brewer's: Aratos
of Achæa, in Greece, murdered Nicocles, the tyrant, in order to restore his country to liberty, and would not allow even a picture of a king to exist. He was poisoned by Philip of Macedon…Brewer's: Mithridate
(3 syl.). A confection said to be invented by Mithridates, King of Pontus and Bithynia, as an antidote to poison. It contains seventy-two ingredients. “What brave spirit could be content…Trending
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