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To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

The juice of anything, especially if red. He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11.

bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.

yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude. Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup. Arbuthnot.

A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.

ush a cup, to drink. [Obs.] -- To crush out. (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.

m) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight.

ormed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.

A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. Johnston.