physic
noun
a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
physicking
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present participleof physic.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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It won’t do for you to be physicking one way and me another, so let it alone.”
From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn
At the date to which I am referring, some forty years ago, there was a great taste in many private families for immoderate physicking.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
Be that as it may, she broke up her establishment in town at this time, and retired to a lonely cottage in Wales, where she amused herself in superintending her dairy and physicking the poor.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston
Night and day, my lady, for two years, have I peen physicking his excellency and all his family:—de governor is subject to de malady of a pad digestion and crudities which gives him troublesome dreams.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
I told him I was going physicking, that the camps were down with fever, and the spread of it might seriously interfere with Dave's work.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum
