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v. t.
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
v. t.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
v. i.
To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
v. t.
To purge; as, to scour a horse.
imp. & p. p.
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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.
The act of purging.
v. t.
To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
a.
That purges; cleansing.
n.
One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
v. t.
To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
v. i.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
v. i.
To become pure, as by clarification.
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.
n.
The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
v. t.
To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
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