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into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. Ray.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

force out; to elicit; to derive. Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. Cheyne. Until you had drawn oaths from him. Shak.

Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.

The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies] The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.

albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

Vinegar; verjuice. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

bstance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

e in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. Pope.

To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson.

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.