Forms: see prec. [f. prec. Cf. F. seringuer, It. sciringare, etc.]
1. trans. To treat with a syringe; to inject or sprinkle fluid into or upon by means of a syringe.
1610. T. Cocks, Diary (1901), 99. Payde … for seringinge my pursse vj d.
1651. French, Distill., iv. 101. Two or three drops being dropped into the Ear, after it is well syringed.
1662. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., verse 18. vi. 565. Do with thy soul as the Chyrurgeon with his patients wounds, who seringeth them with some sharp searching water.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 92. 159. Being deaf, I employed a man to serrenge my ear.
1747. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, ix. 82. Your Batter being hot, syringe your Fritters in it.
1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 453. When the vine is in a growing state the air must be kept moist…. This may always be effected by syringing the plants before shutting up the house.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 780. To syringe out any purulent lesions with carbolic solution.
absol. 1720. Prior, Lett. to Swift, 4 May. I did not take care of my ears till I knew if my head was my own or not; but am now syringing.
1884. Pye, Surgical Handicraft, 423. Place the patient … with the affected ear downwards, and syringe from below.
2. To inject (liquid) by means of a syringe.
1653. T. Brugis, Vade Mecum (ed. 2), 214. Vineger … siringed into the eare … is good.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 299. This Balsam … is to be syringed … into the Wound.
1761. Ann. Reg., IV. Usef. Proj., 128/2. To have some warm milk and water syringed up her nostrils.
Hence Syringed ppl. a., Syringing vbl. sb.
1658. A. Fox, Würtz’ Surg., IV. vi. 335. For pains in the mouth, a strong siringing is necessary.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., IV. vi. 326. A flux of bloud from the Nose, Mouth, and Eye, which was stopt by the syringing up of oxycrate.
1747. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, ix. 82. Syringed Fritters.
1850. Beck’s Florist, 64. Aristolochia hyperborea … requires abundant syringing during the summer, as it is a plant much subject to the attacks of red spider.
