Definition of purge

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Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..

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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..
Flux :: Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.
Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..
Wartwort :: Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis)..
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Drench :: Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic..
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Physic :: Physic (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; 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..
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
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