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

Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..

Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.

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

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

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

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

Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.

Flux :: Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

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)..

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