amurca

Definitiones

amurca: the watery part that flows out in pressing olives, the lees or dregs of oil

declension-1, feminine

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Coordinate term: fracēs”

“Semina vidi equidem multos medicare serentes Et nitro prius et nigra perfundere amurca, Grandior ut fetus siliquis fallacibus esset”

I likewise saw many steep seeds as they were sowing and, beforehand, treat them with alkalis and the dregs of black olive-oil, that bigger fruits may grow inside the deceitful pod, and they quickly boil to however small a fire.

“Sunt qui figularem cretam cum amurca subigunt, soleque siccatis cydoneis inliniri existimant, si in loco⟳ sicco⟳ et frigido⟳ reponantur.”

There are those who mix potter clay with amurca and hold it to be daubed on quinces when they are set up in a dry and cold stead.

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