the name of a poisonous berry, too frequently mixed with malt-liquors in order to make them intoxicating; but this practice is expressly forbidden by act of parliament. It is the fruit of the Menispermum Cocculus. Fishermen have a way of mixing it with paste: this the fish swallow greedily, and are thereby rendered lifeless for a time and float on the water. The good women use it with slaveface, for destroying vermin in children's heads.