Definition of purge

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

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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..
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..
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..
Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
Scour :: Scour (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.
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..
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
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