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

Tampoe :: Tampoe (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..

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

Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

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

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..

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)..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..

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..

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

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

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

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

Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.

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..

Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

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

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

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