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To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.

To purge away. [Obs.] Milton.

Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]

Coarse meal. [Obs.]

A whirlpool. [Obs.] The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. Milton.

See Grudgeons.

A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot.

tical authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.

A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor.

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.

The act of rising again; resurrection.

Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.

To urge again.

ishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.

A surgeon fish.

To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory. [Slang, U.S.] splurge on a new hi-fi system.