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usually uncountable, plural spurges
Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species. quotations examples
But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section X
third-person singular simple present spurges, present participle spurging, simple past and past participle spurged
(intransitive) To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation. quotations examples
The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.
1661, W. Cartwright, Siedge