Bible Dictionaries
Syringe

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Syringe'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/syringe.html. 1828.