Definition of purge

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

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Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
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..
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
Tampoe :: Tampoe (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
Flux :: Flux (v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..
Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
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.) The act of purging.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic..
Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..
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..
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
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