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Sloe, or Sloe-Thorn

The leaves of the sloe are used for adulterating tea. The fruit, which is very austere, is much employed on the Continent of Europe for making a preserve, and also in some places for making a kind of tea. The juice is much used to impart roughness to port wine, and in the fabrication of spurious port.