intransitive. To go through a passage or duct of the body; spec. to be discharged from the body as or with excreta. Cf. sense 50a.

Of matter, etc.: to come, flow, or pass out, esp. in or by evacuation or excretion; to issue. Obsolete.

Medicine. intransitive. To empty one's bowels; (also) to vomit. In later use chiefly: to take purgatives.

transitive. To purge or clear out (something excremental). Also absol. Obsolete.

absol. (In quot. 1832 humorously for ‘spit’.)