Crossword-Solution: URARI 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Raleigh, about the end of the sixteenth century, had heard of urari* as being a vegetable substance with which arrows were envenomed (* In Tamanac marana, in Maypure macuri.); yet no fixed notions of this poison had reached Europe.

Particularly notable is his description of the wonderful wourahli (urari) poison, its extraordinary effect, and the _modus operandi_ of its making; a poison used extensively by Amazonian tribes but not made by all.

The vegeto-alkaline base of curara, urari, woorara, woorali, or wourali, the arrow-poison of Central America.

Thus the Bushman mixes serpent’s poison with the euphorbia juice, and the South American native poison-maker, prepared by a long fast for the mysterious act, concocts the paralysing _urari_ or _curare_ in the secret depths of the forest, where no woman’s eye may fall on the fearful process.