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Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..

Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..

Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..

Scour :: Scour (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.

Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.

Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..

Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.

Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..

Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..

Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.

Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..

Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.

Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

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