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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..

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)..

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

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

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..

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

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

Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..

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

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

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

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

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 clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..

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

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..

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

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

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

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