- (v.t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
- (v.t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
- (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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