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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 clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).

Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.

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

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

Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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)..

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

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

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

Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..

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..

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

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