Purple (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.
Purple (n.) See Purpura.
Purple (n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
Purple (a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
Purple (a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
Purple (a.) Blood-red; bloody.
Purpled (imp. & p. p.) of Purple
Purpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purple
Purple (v. t.) To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.
Purpleheart (n.) A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
Purplewood (n.) Same as Purpleheart.
Purplish (a.) Somewhat purple.
Purport (n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
Purport (n.) Disguise; covering.
Purported (imp. & p. p.) of Purport
Purporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purport
Purport (n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
Purportless (a.) Without purport or meaning.
Purpose (n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
Purpose (n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
Purpose (n.) Instance; example.
Purposed (imp. & p. p.) of Purpose
Purposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purpose
Purpose (v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
Purpose (v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
Purpose (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Purposedly (adv.) In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely.
Purposeful (a.) Important; material.
Purposeless (a.) Having no purpose or result; objectless.
Purposely (adv.) With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly.
Purposer (n.) One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.
Purposer (n.) One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
Purposive (a.) Having or indicating purpose or design.
Purpre (n. & a.) Purple.
Purpresture (n.) Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc.
Purprise (n.) A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.
Purpura (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.
Purpura (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.
Purpurate (a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.
Purpurate (n.) A salt of purpuric acid.
Purpure (n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).
Purpureal (a.) Of a purple color; purple.
Purpureo- () A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.
Purpuric (a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.
Purpuric (a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
Purpurin (n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.
Purpuriparous (a.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
Purpurogenous (a.) Having the power to produce a purple color; as, the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. See Visual purple, under Visual.
Purr (v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.
Purr (n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.
Purre (n.) The dunlin.
Purree (n.) A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.
Purrock (n.) See Puddock, and Parrock.
Purse (n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
Purse (n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
Purse (n.) A specific sum of money
Purse (n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
Purse (n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
Pursed (imp. & p. p.) of Purse
Pursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purse
Purse (v. t.) To put into a purse.
Purse (v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
Purse (v. i.) To steal purses; to rob.
Pursefuls (pl. ) of Purseful
Purseful (n.) All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
Purse-proud (a.) Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.
Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
Purser (n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.
Pursership (n.) The office of purser.
Purset (n.) A purse or purse net.
Pursiness (n.) State of being pursy.
Pursive (a.) Pursy.
Pursiveness (n.) Pursiness.
Purslain (n.) Same as Purslane.
Purslane (n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
Pursuable (a.) Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted.
Pursual (n.) The act of pursuit.
Pursuance (n.) The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
Pursuance (n.) The state of being pursuant; consequence.
Pursuant (a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.
Pursuant (adv.) Alt. of Pursuantly
Pursuantly (adv.) Agreeably; conformably.
Pursued (imp. & p. p.) of Pursue
Pursuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pursue
Pursue (v. t.) To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
Pursue (v. t.) To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.
Pursue (v. t.) To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.
Pursue (v. t.) To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.
Pursue (v. t.) To follow as an example; to imitate.
Pursue (v. t.) To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.
Pursue (v. i.) To go in pursuit; to follow.
Pursue (v. i.) To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.
Pursue (v. i.) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.
Pursuer (n.) One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
Pursuer (n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.
Pursuit (v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.
Pursuit (v. t.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.
Pursuit (v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.