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

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

Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse..

Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..

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

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

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

Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.

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

Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..

Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..

Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification..

Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

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

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

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

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

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