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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Narwhal

Drinking-cups made of the bone of the narwhal used to be greatly valued, from the supposition that they counteracted the fatal effects of poison.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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