adj. something used to clean out an organ system, especially the bowels.
adj. a laxative
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In medicine, emptying; provoking evacuation or the act of voiding; purgative.
n. A medicine which procures evacuations, or promotes the normal secretions and excretions.
n. In organ-building, a valve to let out the air from the bellows.
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adj. strongly laxative
Word Usage
"There is not any slavery which these villains will not undergo, inter illos plerique latrinas evacuant, alii culinariam curant, alii stabularios agunt, urinatores et id genus similia exercent, &c. like those people that dwell in the"