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Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..

Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..

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)..

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

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

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

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..

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