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

In a purgative manner.

d of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

g in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

e of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdike fruit, containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The African calabash tree is the baobab.

genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.

us tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.

Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. -- n. (Med.)

ed species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. -- n. (Med.)

Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.

A purgative.

ally, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances. How inly sorrow gripes his soul. Shak.