picra

Picra

Pi"cra\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? sharp, bitter.] (Med.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
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Picra is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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