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raphany |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Raphany \Raph"a*ny\, n. [Cf. F. raphanie.] (Med.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock ({Raphanus raphanistrum}) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
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