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Syringe
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (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. Garden syringe. See Garden.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.