HIPPOMANES signifies the expressed juice of the tithymallus; as also a juice distilling from the genitals of a mare, in the time of her covering: some again take it for the fecundines of a mare; and, lastly, it signifies a fleshy substance adhering to the forehead of a colt newly foaled, which some imagine to have a virtue of procuring love, and promoting the birth.
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