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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



... along a road which wound in serpentine twinings high above the sea, now breasting ridges bare of all save rock and spurge, and now dipping into valleys shaded by flowering trees and cloyed with the scent of blooms. It meandered past farms, in haphazard fashion, past vineyards and gardens and groves of mandarin, lime, ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... hollow of the sunny mountain-side. Into the hard conglomerate of the hill the town is built; house walls and precipices mortised into one another, dovetailed by the art of years gone by, and riveted by age. The same plants grow from both alike—spurge, cistus, rue, and henbane, constant to the desolation of abandoned dwellings. From the castle you look down on roofs, brown tiles and chimney-pots, set one above the other like a big card-castle. Each house has its foot on a neighbour's neck, and its shoulder ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds
... characteristics of general physiognomy, and the more accurate differences of structure, but in an especial manner by the medicinal and economical properties which they possess, and which are indeed frequently peculiar to the order. Such is the case with the natural order Euphorbiaceae, or spurge family, to which the tallow-tree of China belongs. The order includes 2500 species, all of which are more or less acrid and poisonous, these properties being especially developed in the milky juices which abound in the ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 - Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 • Various
... sky, prolonged to the sea's brim: One rock-point standing buffetted alone, Vexed at its base with a foul beast unknown, Hell-spurge of geomaunt and teraphim: A knight, and a winged creature bearing him, Reared at the rock: a woman fettered there, Leaning into the hollow with loose hair And throat let back and heartsick trail of limb. The sky is harsh, and the sea shrewd and salt. Under his lord, the griffin-horse ramps ...
— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various


Words linked to "Spurge" :   medusa's head, devil's milk, myrtle spurge, flowering spurge, leafy spurge, Euphorbia corollata, poinsettia, Christmas flower, candelilla, Euphorbia pulcherrima, shrub, spurge laurel, Euphorbia heterophylla, Japanese spurge, Euphorbia, Euphorbia antisyphilitica, naboom, Euphorbia cyparissias, wild spurge, wolf's milk, Christ thorn, slipper spurge, painted leaf, Euphorbia exigua, tramp's spurge, caper spurge, fire-on-the-mountain, Mexican fire plant, snow-in-summer, Euphorbia hirsuta, Euphorbia cyathophora, sun spurge, Euphorbia dentata, crown of thorns, wartwort, Euphorbia lathyris, Euphorbia ingens, bush, Euphorbia medusae, Euphorbia esula, Christmas star, cactus euphorbia, Japanese poinsettia, Euphorbia caput-medusae, hairy spurge, scarlet plume, spurge family, Euphorbia marginata, Allegheny mountain spurge, ghost weed, cypress spurge, wood spurge, Christ plant, mole plant, Euphorbia fulgens, wartweed, Euphorbia milii, Euphorbia amygdaloides, genus Euphorbia, Allegheny spurge, spurge nettle, Mexican flameleaf, Euphorbia helioscopia


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