Noah Webster
Aperient
APE'RIENT, adjective [Latin aperiens, aperio.]
Opening; that has the quality of opening; deobstruent; laxative.
APE'RIENT, noun a medicine which promoties the circulation of the fluids, by removing obstructions; a laxative; a deobstruent; as, smallage, fennel, asparagus, parsley, and butcher's broom.