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g 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.

To purge away. [Obs.] Milton.

Any plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe. -- Spurge laurel, a European shrub (Daphne Laureola) with oblong evergreen leaves. -- Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Dap…

Any euphorbiaceous plant. Lindley.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] This book [must] be carded and purged. T. Shelton.

Spurge. [Obs.]

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

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

f boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

specially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

(euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.