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.

The condition of being pure. freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life. Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

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.

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.

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.

The body of a statute, or that part which begins with / Be it enacted, / as distinguished from the preamble. The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.

The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

A piece of armor for the breast; often, an addition to, or re/nforcement of. the breastplate; -- called also pesane.

The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated / Tracts for the Times;/ tractarianism. See Tractarianism.

One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.

Of or pertaining to Puseyism.

A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang.

One who, or that which, pushes.

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

A child's game played with pins.

Very small; little; petty.

The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.

Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pusillanimous prince.

With pusillanimity.

Purslane.

A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

See Pursy.

Producing pustules. A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil.

Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

To form into pustules, or blisters.

Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.

Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular.

A prostitute.

To put an end to. To prove false; to discredit; as, Galileo's observations put paid to the notion that the Earth was the center of the universe.

to connect a device to a telephone line surreptitiously, so as to listen to or record the conversations of persons on the telephone without their knowledge; -- of telephones, persons, or locations. Used as police jargon.

Do what you claim you can do; -- a challenge to someone who has claimed some ability.

A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.