Definition of purge

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Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

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Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..
Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
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..
Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..
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..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..
Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..
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..
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
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