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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 accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..

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

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..

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

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

Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

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

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..

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..

Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.

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..

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