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One of the testicles of a hart or stag. [Spelt also doucet.] B. Jonson.

A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton.

A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark. Money is said to have no earmark. Wharton. Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark. Robynson (More's Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.…

g to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. Wharton.

ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

-- said of character or habits. Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance. Harte.

f possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton.

A cathartic substance 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).

d especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

dence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable. Wharton. Stephen. Burrill.

Expressing character. [Obs.] Urquhart.

A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

ilky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. -- n. (Med.)

Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.

in the absence of the other. Hearings before grand juries, and affidavits, are ex parte. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.