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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

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

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

Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.

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..

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

Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..

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..

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..

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

Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

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

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

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

Tampoe :: Tampoe (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

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

Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..

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