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Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.

A cathartic; a purgative. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n. (Med.)

In a purgative manner.

Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.

One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. Boswell.

A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for si…

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton.

One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.

The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

That purges; cleansing. Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

See Euxanthin.

The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.

Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. [R.]

One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

In the form of pus.

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.