CASTOR BEAN • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Castor bean

... chow-chow, it is sure to be fried in some vegetable oil that sends up a mighty vapor, hiding the cooks and rolling into the narrow street, where it scarcely finds vent between the overhanging eaves of the houses. The sickening smell of the castor bean seems everywhere. Occasionally the sight and powerful odor of hard-boiled and rotten goose eggs, split open to show that they are either rotten or half hatched, attract the Chinese epicure. The oily cakes and crullers that the wandering baker is frying for a group of children, powerfully ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various