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It needs; need. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. What thar thee reck or care Chaucer.

Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.

A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent.

An anacatharic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

See cantharis.

The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.

A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blist…

See catherine wheel.

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.

rinciple of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

See Cithara.