1. The popular name of a plant of the genus Phytolacca, otherwise called cocum and garget; a native of noun America. As a medicine, it has emetic and cathartic qualities, and has had some reputation as a remedy for rheumatism. It was formerly called in Virginia, pocan.
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1. Properly, to thrust; hence, to feel or search for with a long instrument.
2. To thrust at with the horns, as an ox; a popular use of the word in New England. And intransitively, to poke at, is to thrust the horns at.
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