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v. t.
To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
v. t.
The act of purging.
n.
The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
v. t.
To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
v. t.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
v. i.
To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
v. i.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
n.
One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
v. i.
To become pure, as by clarification.
v. t.
To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
v. t.
To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
a.
That purges; cleansing.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To purge; as, to scour a horse.
v. t.
To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
v. t.
To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
v. t.
To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
v. t.
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
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