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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..

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

Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..

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

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..

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

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

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..

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..

Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.

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

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

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..

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

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)..

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

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

Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..

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

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