HY'DRAGOGUE, noun hy'dragog. [Gr. water, and a leading or drawing; to lead or drive.] A medicine that occasions a discharge of watery humors; a name that implies a supposition that every purgative has the quality of evacuating a particular humor. But in general, the stronger cathartics are hydragogues.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.