A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larv/, or larval skins, of certain Diptera. Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.

A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larv/ and pup/ of insects.

Feeding on the pup/ of insects.

Publican.

A small image in the human form; a doll.

Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.

A master of a puppet show.

Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.

To bring forth whelps; to pup.

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Like a puppy.

Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.

The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.

One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

Pertaining to the Puranas.

Wholly blind.

Purslane.

Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.

The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.

One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

Purified; refined.

To grind or blend into a paste with the solids finely divided; to make into a puree.

In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.

To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.

Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.

A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.

Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.

That which is excreted; excretion.

The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. A purging medicine; a cathartic.

In a purgative manner.

One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.

Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.

A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.

The act of purging.

One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.

The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

See Euxanthin.

The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.

Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.

One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

In the form of pus.

To grow or become pure or clear.

A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.

Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.

Of or pertaining to purists or purism.

Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.

Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.

In a puritanical manner.

The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.

To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans.

A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.

Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.

In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.

The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing.

To practice theft; to steal.

One who purloins.

A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.

To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (Copaifera pubiflora, Copaifera bracteata, and Copaifera officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.

Same as Purpleheart.

Somewhat purple.

To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

Without purport or meaning.

To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely.

Important; material.

Having no purpose or result; objectless.

With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly.

One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purple.

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.

A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.

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.

A salt of purpuric acid.

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).

Of a purple color; purple.

A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.

Having the power to produce a purple color; as, the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. See Visual purple, under Visual.

The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.

The dunlin.

A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.

See Puddock, and Parrock.

To steal purses; to rob.

Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

The office of purser.

A purse or purse net.

State of being pursy.

Pursy.

Pursiness.

Same as Purslane.

An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted.

The act of pursuit.

The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.

Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.

Agreeably; conformably.

To go in pursuit; to follow.

One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.

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.

To pursue.

Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.

That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.

The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself.

Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

In a purulent manner.

Purveyance.

To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.