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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..

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

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

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

Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.

Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..

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

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

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

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

Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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