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Elater :: Elater (n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative..

Noli-me-tangere :: Noli-me-tangere (n.) The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

Squirt :: Squirt (v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate..

Spoutless :: Spoutfish (n.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes..

Squirt :: Squirt (v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids..

Squiry :: Squirter (n.) One who, or that which, squirts..

Squirting :: Squirted (imp. & p. p.) of Squir.

Touch-me-not :: Touch-me-not (n.) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

Squirt :: Squirt (v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water..

Squirter :: Squirt (n.) A small, quick stream; a jet..

Quirt :: Quirt (n.) A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..

Elaterium :: Elaterium (n.) A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium)..

Squirt :: Squirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squir.

Squirt :: Squirt (n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.

Sea Squirt :: Sea squirt () An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.

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