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Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

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  1. a. Gently opening the bowels; laxative.
  2. n. An aperient medicine or food.
  3. adj. mildly laxative
  4. n. a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
  5. Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n. An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot.
  6. Gently opening the bowels; laxative.-- n.