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Any plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe. -- Spurge laurel, a European shrub (Daphne Laureola) with oblong evergreen leaves. -- Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Dap…

Any euphorbiaceous plant. Lindley.

Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridæ. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the a…

A spring; a fountain. [Obs.] "Divers surges and springs of water." Ld. Berners.

Abounding in surges; surgy. "Tossing the surgeful tides." Drayton.

Free from surges; smooth; calm.

Rising; swelling, as a flood. [R.] Robert Greene.

have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. Surgeon apothecary, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. Dunglison. -- Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist. -- Surgeon fish. See def…

The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.

Surgery. [Obs.]

A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

A magician; a wonder worker. Lowell.

Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

To become turgid; to swell or be inflated. [R.]

The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent. Sir T. Browne.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense. [Obs.]. Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted. Jer. Taylor.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

d no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God…