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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..

Spurling-line :: Spurling (n.) A tern.

Spur :: Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage..

Dispurvey :: Dispurvey (v. t.) To disfurnish; to strip.

Upspurner :: Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist..

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..

Terutero :: Terutero (n.) The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.

Spurn :: Spurn (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

Extempore :: Extempore (adv.) Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore..

Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..

Bicalcarate :: Bicalcarate (a.) Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird..

Stavewood :: Stavesacre (n.) A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish..

Spurway :: Spurtle (v. t.) To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

Ranunculaceous :: Ranunculaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony..

Dispurveyance :: Dispurveyance (n.) Want of provisions; /ack of food.

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)..

Spurner :: Spurn (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Adulterous :: Adulterous (a.) Characterized by adulteration; spurious.

Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

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