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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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..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification..
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.
Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..
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..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
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