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‖ hippomanes|hɪˈpɒməniːz|
[Gr. ἱπποµανές (see below), neut. of ἱπποµανής, f. ἵππο-ς horse + µαν-, root of µαίνεσθαι to be mad. In mod.F. hippomane.]
a. ‘A small black fleshy substance said to occur on the forehead of a new-born foal’.
b. ‘A mucous humour that runs from mares a-horsing’ (Liddell and Scott). (Both reputed aphrodisiacs.)
1601Holland Pliny I. 222 These foles verily, by report, haue growing on their forehead..a little black thing of the bignesse of a fig, called Hippomanes. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 130 Cæsonia the wife of Caligula..whom she drench'd with the love-cup made of the hippomanes, a tender peice of flesh taken from the brow of a young foal. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 443. 1756 Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 170 The Hippomanes has been distinguished under two species; the one a liquor distilling from a mare, during the time of her heat. 1831Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) IV. 201 Poison was compounded, according to the declaration of the wizard, of adders' skins, toads' skins, and the hippomanes in the head of a young foal. |