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noun

aloe n. (pl. aloes)

pl. The wood of the agalloch. (Obs.)

(Bot.) (capitalized) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. (Plural in form but syntactically singular.)

American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

aloes n. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe. Same as aloe 3.

Synonyms: bitter aloes

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and his friends took down the body of Jesus from the cross, and wrapped it in fine linen. And Nicodemus brought some precious spices, myrrh and aloes, which they wrapped up with the body. Then they placed the body in Joseph's own new tomb, which was a cave dug out of the rock, in a garden near the place of the cross. And before the opening of the cave they ...

— The Wonder Book of Bible Stories • Compiled by Logan Marshall

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— A Bird Calendar for Northern India • Douglas Dewar

... ignorance of the white man tickled her. "We gather aloes for medicine for her sick children; the core of the lechugilla for their food, yucca leaves for plumes for their heads, and scarlet panicles of the Fouquiera splendens for their clothes. My brother and I will go to her to-night when the old woman ...

— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

... overtook the horse on which sat Therese, with her infant on her arm. Therese smiled as she saw him coming; but the first few words he said to her covered her face with tears. Blinded by these tears, she guided her horse among the tough aloes which grew along the border of the bridle-path, and the animal stumbled, nearly jerking the infant from her arms. Her master let her get over the difficulty as she might, while he rode on in the midst ...

— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau

... whenever I chose, I could make them wheel to the right about. So it chanced, as we were playing, that I was in prime luck, first rooking the one and syne the other, and I saw them twisting and screwing their mouths about as if they were chewing bitter aloes. Finding that they were on the point of being beaten roop and stoop, they all three rose up from the chairs, crying with one voice, that I was a cheat.—An elder of Maister Wiggie's kirk to be called a cheat! Most awful!!! Flesh and blood ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

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