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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..

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

Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..

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

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..

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. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.

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

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..

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

Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.

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