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Interpolation :: Interpolation (n.) The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign..

Spur :: Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood..

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..

Spurn :: Spurn (v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

Spurn-water :: Spurner (n.) One who spurns.

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..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.

Spurrey :: Spurrer (n.) One who spurs.

Philosophism :: Philosophism (n.) Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

Spurt :: Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur..

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

Nasturtium :: Nasturtium (n.) Any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, geraniaceous herbs, having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and including the common Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus), the canary-bird flower (T. peregrinum), and about thirty more species, all natives of South America. The whole plant has a warm pungent flavor, and the fleshy fruits are used as a substitute for capers, while the leaves and flowers are sometimes used in salads..

Spurn :: Spurning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spur.

Dicentra :: Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis)..

Spurious :: Spurging (n.) A purging.

Spur :: Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

Spurling :: Spurless (a.) Having no spurs.

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

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

Hooke''s Gearing :: Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle..

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