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Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

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

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..

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..

Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.

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

Flux :: Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by 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..

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

Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.

Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..

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

Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse..

Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

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

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

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