Obs. rare. [ad. L. ēmunctiōn-em a wiping of the nose, n. of action f. ēmungĕre to wipe the nose.]
1. The action of wiping the nose; hence transf. of clearing any of the passages of the body.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 538. For we haue often seen that Medicines applied to the eyes haue through these holes past into the nose, and so haue beene cast out either by emunction or by the mouth.
1684. I. Mather, Remark. Provid. (1856), 212. After the use of unctions and emunctions.
† 2. Excretion. Obs. Cf. EMUNCTORY.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., ii. (1653), 71. The curious emunctions of the pores.
