1. (n.) The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

2. (n.) A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

3. (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

4. (n.) A physician.

5. (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

6. (v. t.) To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.

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