Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VERMI-FUGE
VERM-IF'U-GALVER'MIL, or VER-MIL-ION
VERMI-FUGE, n. [L. vermis, a worm, and fugo, to expel.]
A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
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