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2. To vomit. [Slang]
Smollett.

||Cas*cal"ho (?), n. [Pg., a chip
of stone, gravel.] A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and
ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually
found.

||Cas"ca*ra sa*gra"da (?). [Sp.] Holy bark; the
bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus),
used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

Cas`ca*ril"la (?), n.[Sp., small
thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of cáscara bark.]
(Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton
Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.

Cascarilla bark (or
Cascarilla) (Med.), the bark of
Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm,
spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is
used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its
fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to
occasion vertigo and intoxication.

Cas`ca*ril"lin (?), n.
(Chem.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance
extracted from oil of cascarilla.

Case (kās), n.


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