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noun

aloe n. (pl. aloes)

pl. The wood of the agalloch. (Obs.)

(Bot.) (capitalized) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. (Plural in form but syntactically singular.)

American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

aloes n. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe. Same as aloe 3.

Synonyms: bitter aloes

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"Aloes" Quotes from Famous Books

... patient must take antimony. It was like sending for the constable and the posse comitatus when there is only a carpet to shake or a refuse-barrel to empty. [Dr. James Johnson advises persons not ailing to take five grains of blue pill with one or two of aloes twice a week for three or four months in the year, with half a pint of compound decoction of sarsaparilla every day for the same period, to preserve health and prolong life. Pract. Treatise on Dis. of Liver, etc. p. 272.] The constitution bears slow poisoning a great deal ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... while the lady partook slightly of the banquet, two other slaves appeared and danced in a pleasing style for several minutes. They retired, but shortly returned, carrying in their hands massive silver censers, in which burnt aloes, cinnamon and other odoriferous woods diffused a delicious perfume around. The four slaves who attended at table removed the dishes on splendid silver salvers, and then served sherbet and a variety of delicious ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

... passing unmolested from the midst of them, Apaecides and his companions, without entering the house, hastened down one of the alleys, passed a small open gate, and there, sitting on a little mound over which spread the gloom of the dark green aloes, the moonlight fell on the bended figure of the blind ...

— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... Scammony, Aloes, and the other strong resinous and hydragogue Purges, are hurtful, and occasion Pain. I always observed, that those Purges answered best which made the freest Evacuation, and acted with the greatest Ease to the Patient; of which the Salts and Manna ...

— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... you think of a big, red, dead city built of red sandstone, with raw green aloes growing between the stones, lying out neglected on honey-coloured sands? There are forty dead kings there, Maisie, each in a gorgeous tomb finer than all the others. You look at the palaces and streets and shops and tanks, ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

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