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  1. ... large doses they are purgative and emetic. The seeds abound in a mild, oil, which may be extracted by pressure. FI'BRE. (Fibra, ce, f.) A simple filament. Many of the textures of animal and vegetable bodies are manifestly composed of fibres. Fiber. Castor fiber. Fibra sanguinis. Fibrin. FI'BRIL. A ...
  2. ... serosity, some being as small as a lentil-seed, and others as large as an almond. Although ... in dry, del- ving scabs, resembling lu- pine-seeds ; the interstices often covered with a thin, whitish, ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
    ... the stomach, and produces no dis- agreeable effects. Reference to the Plate. ... open, showing the single seed. /, a portion of the root, sending off a ...
  4. ... etc. * Latin, uro, to burn. 153-2 The seeds were given in goitre, ... stalks afford a tough fiber, not inferior to hemp for the manufacture of ...
  5. ... his investigation of external scrof- ula, chiefly with reference to an early ... that period of life when the seeds of scrofula are sown, is, in the vast ...
  6. ... Sex. Syst. Pentandria Digynia. The plants, roots, and seeds are aperient and carminative. Selery is a variety ... Persil. The root—Pe- troselinum, (Ph. U. S.)—and seeds are diuretic and aperient. APLASTIC, Apladticus, from a, ...
  7. ... is eaten it is easily digested; when the seeds are also used they may have a some- ... Apple Juice, Apple Tea, Cider. Other Fruits having Seeds and Pits. Some persons never go to bed ...
  8. ... calyx, flower, corolla, stamen, filament, anther, ovary, fruit, seed, etc., ... reference to typical features, propitious soil, and natural localities, ...
  9. ... seu aatlvne, is meant, in some pharmacopeias. The seeds, which were much eaten in the days of ... colour, and of the size of a poppy seed. The glandular grains give rise to the radicles ...
  10. ... Papau, Avocador Pear Anchovy Pear, Mango, | Banana, | Plaintain, ^ Mangos ... second year, from the seed. The most extensive peach orchards in this country ...
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