Meanings of clyster in English

Took a clyster in the morning and rose in the afternoon.

May the great devil give them a clyster with his red-hot three-pronged fork.

We made him sick with hot butter and gave him a strong clyster.

We stared at the clyster-pipe ballista, then at each other.

Our modern medical writers ascribe great virtues to tobacco-water, injected into the womb by means of a clyster.

There was a partial absence of the peritoneal sac, and the obstruction readily yielded to a clyster and laxative.

But the man who had helped the lad to administer the poisoned clyster, the under-keeper Weston, was at hand.

At last they produced his death by the application of a poisoned clyster, by which he next day in painful agonies expired.

We dosed Mustara with butter as an emetic, and he also threw up nothing but the chewed Gyrostemon; the clyster produced the same.

Thus have you heard how the ass was found by means of a clyster; it is a manifest fact, and one that often happens.

If this does not abate the pain, make a clyster of camomile, balm-leaves, oil of olives and new milk, boiling the former in the latter.

When he had this clyster in his belly, he went away, without saying anything more about his ass, which he fully believed he should recover.

Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wife did give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz.

The Clyster given the Child last evening operated very well.

As they had confidence in nobody, they treated the animals themselves, giving them purgatives and clysters.

Then Steele applied clysters and "other remedies" to the patient, but with no effect.