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noun
- (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
- Late C14: To bedde goí¾ Aleyne and also John; / í�er nas na moore " hem nedede no . " Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale
- belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
- 1842: 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 " J. van Voorst, The Phytologist, p. 595.
Etymology: Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Danish dvale "sleep, stupor".
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