Definition of purge

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

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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..
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..
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..
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..
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).
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
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..
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.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..
Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..
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