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Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..

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

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

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

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

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

Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

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.

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..

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

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

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..

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

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..

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

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

Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.

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

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