Horehound
or HOARHOUND, in botany, a plant so hoary as to be almost woolly; the leaves are broadly ovate and wild in Continental Europe, North crenate; the whorls of flowers dense; Africa, Western and Southern Asia, etc.
Black or stinking horehound is Ballota nigra, or the genus Ballota; wild horehound, Eupatorium teucrifolium. The plant contains a bitter principle and a volatile oil, used as a tonic, expectorant, and alterative for coughs.
HORICON (hō'rē-kon), a name applied to Lake George by the novelist Cooper. The Red Men called the lake Andialarocte. Jogues, the French missionary pioneer, named it St. Sacramente, because he discovered it the day before that festival.