Definition of purge

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

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Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
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..
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..
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)..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
Scour :: Scour (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..
Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.
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. i.) To become pure, as by clarification..
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