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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..

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..

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

Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.

Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..

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

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

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

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

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.) The act of purging.

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

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..

Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..

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

Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..

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

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

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

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