Definition of purge

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Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.

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Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
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.) The act of purging.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..
Flux :: Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
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..
Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
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..
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)..
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Purger :: Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine..
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..
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..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
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