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Spurge   Listen
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Spurge  v. t.  To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. (Obs.)





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"Spurge" Quotes from Famous Books



... of simples, such as the venerable "Herball" of Gerard describes and figures in abounding affluence. St. John's wort and Clown's All-heal, with Spurge and Fennel, Saffron and Parsley, Elder and Snake-root, with opium in some form, and roasted rhubarb and the Four Great Cold Seeds, and the two Resins, of which it used to be said that whatever the Tacamahaca has not cured, the Caranna ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... which happened to some of our people. A high mountain at the S.E. end of the isle seems to be left in its original state, and to have escaped the general destruction. Its soil is a kind of white marl, which yet retains its vegetative qualities, and produceth a kind of purslain, spurge, and one or two grasses. On these the goats subsist, and it is at this part of the isle where they are to be found, as also land-crabs, which are said to ...
— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 • James Cook
... system of veins was countenanced by the following experiment; I cut off several stems of tall spurge, (Euphorbia helioscopia) in autumn, about the centre of the plant, and observed tenfold the quantity of milky juice ooze from the upper than from the lower extremity, which could hardly have happened if there had been a venous system of vessels to return the blood ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin


Words linked to "Spurge" :   cactus euphorbia, Japanese spurge, cypress spurge, Euphorbia peplus, snow-on-the-mountain, petty spurge, painted leaf, toothed spurge, Euphorbia hirsuta, fire-on-the-mountain, candelilla, Euphorbia caput-medusae, Euphorbia cyparissias, Euphorbia helioscopia, caper spurge, flowering spurge, snow-in-summer, Christmas flower, Euphorbia amygdaloides, Euphorbia antisyphilitica, wartwort, bush, medusa's head, Christ plant, genus Euphorbia, Christ thorn, paint leaf, shrub, myrtle spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, spurge laurel, Euphorbia milii, leafy spurge, Christmas star, Euphorbia esula, Allegheny mountain spurge, sun spurge, Euphorbia corollata, Allegheny spurge, Euphorbia cyathophora, Euphorbia marginata, Euphorbia medusae, hairy spurge, naboom, wild spurge, scarlet plume, Euphorbia exigua, wartweed, Japanese poinsettia, lobster plant, wood spurge, tramp's spurge, slipper spurge, poinsettia, devil's milk, dwarf spurge


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