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- English Word Pure Definition Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- English Word Pured Definition Purified; refined.
- English Word Puree Definition A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
- English Word Purely Definition In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
- English Word Purely Definition Nicely; prettily.
- English Word Pureness Definition The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).
- English Word Purfile Definition A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.
- English Word Purfle Definition To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
- English Word Purfle Definition To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.
- English Word Purfle Definition Alt. of Purflew
- English Word Purfled Definition Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.
- English Word Purflew Definition A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.
- English Word Purflew Definition A border of any heraldic fur.
- English Word Purfling Definition Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
- English Word Purgament Definition That which is excreted; excretion.
- English Word Purgament Definition A cathartic; a purgative.
- English Word Purgation Definition 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.
- English Word Purgation Definition The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.
- English Word Purgative Definition Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
- English Word Purgative Definition A purging medicine; a cathartic.