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Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).

Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Drench :: Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic..

Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.

Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..

Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..

Physic :: Physic (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge..

Scour :: Scour (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.

Wartwort :: Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis)..

Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..

Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.

Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..

Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..

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