Ne-pĕn'the or Ne-pĕn'thēs1, n.
n. [Fr. népenthe, from Gr. νηπενθής, removing all sorrow, hence an epithet of an Egyptian drug which lulled sorrow for the day; νη-, not, and πένθος, sorrow, grief.] A drug used by the ancients to relieve from pain and produce great exhilaration of spirits;—by some supposed to have been opium, or hashish.
Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this. Milton.
