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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Syringe

/sẽr-ĭnj'/ · Syr·inge · IPA /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒ/
01 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 pis…
  1. 1.
    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.
Phrases & compounds
Garden syringe — See Garden.
02 v. t. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
imp. & p. p. Syringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Syringing
  1. 1.
    To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
  2. 2.
    To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.