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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..

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

Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification..

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..

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..

Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..

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

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

Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.

Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..

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

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

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

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

Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

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

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