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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

That purges; cleansing.

Purging flax

(Bot.)

an annual European plant of the genus

Linum

(

Linum catharticum

); dwarf wild flax; – so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

Noun.

(Med.)

The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

ppr.

Cleansing; purifying; carrying off impurities or superfluous matter.

Noun.

A diarrhea or dysentery; preternatural evacuation by stool; looseness of bowels.