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Webster 1913 Edition

Turbith

Tur′bith

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Noun.

[F., fr. Per. See

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Webster 1828 Edition

Turbith

TUR'BITH

Definition 2024

turbith

turbith

English

Alternative forms

turpeth

Noun

turbith ‎(uncountable)

A type of purgative drug made from the root of a type of morning glory plant, Operculina turpethum; or the plant itself.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.ii:
  turbith, agarick, mirabolanes, hermodactils from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […].