physic
- n a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
- According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery.
- Raptly his gastroenterological associates listened to an injunction often enunciated, but seldom heeded: "Never take a physic when there is abdominal pain that could possibly be .
- Also known as "physic nut," the plant produces a green nut that is pressed and processed into a biofuel catching on in entrepreneurial green pockets of the world from Florida to .