Definitions for ratsbanes

ratsbanes rats·bane

Spelling: [rats-beyn]
IPA: /ˈrætsˌbeɪn/

Ratsbanes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 462 anagrams from letters in ratsbanes (aabenrsst).

Definitions for ratsbanes

noun

  1. rat poison.
  2. the trioxide of arsenic.

Origin of ratsbanes

First recorded in 1515-25; rat + 's1 + bane

Examples for ratsbanes

It is the double-distilled extract of nux vomica, ratsbane, and adder's tongue.

Mrs. Smith's doctor tells her if she wants poison she had better get ratsbane, and then she will know what she is swallowing.

If his Lordship had sent me an infusion of ratsbane in the loving-cup, I should have taken it much more kindly at his hands.

Did I think he was so weak as bite holes in his flesh with ratsbane?

If his wife and children are not to be made over, he is not to wear a dagger and ratsbane in his pockets.

I counselled him either to give or take an ounce of ratsbane, to cure his mind.

Doolittle is a rat, and I will hire somebody to give him ratsbane.

If he wears a dagger and ratsbane, it must be to do mischief to himself or somebody else.

Word Value for ratsbanes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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