(archaic, countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.

(archaic, uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.

(archaic, uncountable) Natural philosophy; physics.

(obsolete) A physician.

(transitive) To cure or heal.

(transitive) To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.

Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.