Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expelling or tending to expel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Expelling or having the power to expel: as, an expellant medicine.
- noun That which expels: as, calomel is a powerful expellant.
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One late sixteenth-century commentator on America recommended it as a purge for superfluous phlegm; and smokers believed it functioned as an antidote for poisons, as an expellant for "sour" humors, and as a healer of wounds.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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