Definition of purge

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Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..

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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)..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Tampoe :: Tampoe (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..
Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
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..
Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..
Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..
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