Pullulation – Purprise

Pullulation

PULLULA'TION, noun A germinating or budding; the first shooting of a bud.

Pulmonary

PUL'MONARY, adjective [Latin pulmonarius, from pulmo, the lungs, from pello, pulsus, pulso, to drive or beat.] Pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; as a pulmonary disease or consumption; the pulmonary artery.

PUL'MONARY, noun [Latin pulmonaria.] A plant, lungwort.

Pulmonic

PULMON'IC, adjective [Latin pulmo, the lungs.] Pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; as a pulmonic disease; pulmonic consumption.

PULMON'IC, noun A medicine for diseases of the lungs.

1. One affected by a disease of the lungs.

Pulp

PULP, noun [Latin pulpa. This is probably allied to Latin puls, pulmentum; Gr. from softness.]

1. A soft mass; in general.

2. The soft substance within a bone; marrow.

3. The soft, succulent part of fruit; as the pulp of an orange.

4. The aril or exterior covering of a coffee-berry.

PULP, verb transitive To deprive of the pulp or integument, as the coffee-berry.

The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine, a man will pulp a bushel in a minute.

Pulpit

PUL'PIT, noun [Latin pulpitum, a state, scaffold, or higher part of a stage.]

1. An elevated place or inclosed stage in a church, in which the preacher stands. It is called also a desk.

2. In the Roman theater, the pulpitum was the place where the players performed their parts, lower than the scene and higher than the orchestra.

3. A movable desk, from which disputants pronounced their dissertations, and authors recited their works.

Pulpit-Eloquence

PULPIT-EL'OQUENCE

PULPIT-OR'ATOR, noun An eloquent preacher.

Pulpit-Orator

PULPIT-OR'ATOR, n. An eloquent preacher.

Pulpit-Oratory

PULPIT-OR'ATORY, noun Eloquence or oratory in delivering sermons.

Pulpitically in Chesterfield, is not an authorized word.

Pulpous

PULP'OUS, adjective [from pulp.] Consisting of pulp or resembling it; soft like pap.

Pulpousness

PULP'OUSNESS, noun Softness; the quality of being pulpous.

Pulpy

PULP'Y, adjective Like pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or cherry.

Pulsate

PULS'ATE, verb intransitive [Latin pulsatus, pulso, to beat, from the root of pello, to drive.] To beat or throb.

The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body.

Pulsatile

PULS'ATILE, adjective [Latin pulsatilis, from pulso, to beat.]

That is or may be struck or beaten; played by beating; as a pulsatile instrument of music.

Pulsation

PULSA'TION, noun [Latin pulsatio, supra.] The beating or throbbing of the heart or of an artery, in the process of carrying on the circulation of the blood. The blood being propelled by the contraction of the heart, causes the arteries to dilate, so as to render each dilation perceptible to the touch in certain parts of the body, as in the radial artery, etc.

1. In law, any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.

By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.

Pulsative

PULS'ATIVE, adjective Beating; throbbing.

Pulsator

PULSA'TOR, noun A beater; a striker.

Pulsatory

PULS'ATORY, adjective Beating; throbbing; as the heart and arteries.

Pulse

PULSE, noun puls. [Latin pulsus, from pello, to drive.]

1. In animals, the beating or throbbing of the heart and arteries; more particularly, the sudden dilatation of an artery, caused by the projectile force of the blood, which is perceptible to the touch. Hence we say, to feel the pulse The pulse is frequent or rare, quick or slow, equal or unequal, regular or intermitting, hard or soft, strong or weak, etc. The pulses of an adult in health, are little more than one pulse to a second; in certain fevers, the number is increased to 90, 100, or even to 140 in a minute.

2. The stroke with which a medium is affected by the motion of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration.

Sir Isaac Newton demonstrates that the velocities of the pulses of an elastic fluid medium are in a ratio compounded of half the ratio of the elastic force directly, and half the ratio of the density inversely.

To feel one's pulse metaphorically, to sound one's opinion; to try or to know one's mind.

PULSE, verb intransitive To beat, as the arteries. [Little used.]

PULSE, verb transitive [Latin pulso.] To drive, as the pulse [Little used.]

PULSE, noun [Latin pulsus, beaten out, as seeds; Heb. a bean, to separate.] Leguminous plants or their seeds; the plants whose pericarp is a legume or pod, as beans, peas, etc.

Pulsific

PULSIF'IC, adjective [pulse and Latin facio, to make.]

Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

Pulsion

PUL'SION, noun [from Latin pulsus.] The act of driving forward; in opposition to suction or traction. [Little used.]

Pultaceous

PULTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin puls. See Pulp.]

Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Pulverable

PUL'VERABLE, adjective [from Latin pulvis, dust, probably from pello, pulso, or its root, that which is beaten fine, or that which is driven. See Powder.] That may be reduced to fine powder; capable of being pulverized.

Pulverate

PUL'VERATE, verb transitive To beat or reduce to powder or dust.

[But pulverize is generally used.]

Pulverin

PUL'VERIN

PUL'VERINE, noun Ashes of barilla.

Pulverine

PUL'VERINE, n. Ashes of barilla.

Pulverization

PULVERIZA'TION, noun [from pulverize.]

The act of reducing to dust or powder.

Pulverize

PUL'VERIZE, verb transitive To reduce to fine powder, as by beating, grinding, etc. Friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating; but to pulverize malleable bodies, other methods must be pursued.

Pulverized

PUL'VERIZED, participle passive Reduced to fine powder.

Pulverizing

PUL'VERIZING, participle present tense Reducing to fine powder.

Pulverous

PUL'VEROUS, adjective Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

Pulverulence

PULVER'ULENCE, noun Dustiness; abundance of dust or powder.

Pulverulent

PULVER'ULENT, adjective Dusty; consisting of fine powder; powdery.

1. Addicted to lying and rolling in the dust, as fowls.

Pulvil

PUL'VIL, noun A sweet scented powder. [Little used.]

PUL'VIL, verb transitive To sprinkle with a perfumed powder. [Not used.]

Puma

PU'MA, noun A rapacious quadruped of America, of the genus Felis.

Pumice

PUM'ICE, noun [Latin pumex, supposed to be from the root of spuma, foam.]

A substance frequently ejected from volcanoes, of various colors, gray, white, reddish brown or black; hard, rough and porous; specifically lighter than water, and resembling the slag produced in an iron furnace. It consists of parallel fibers, and is supposed to be asbestos decomposed by the action of fire.

Pumice is of three kinds, glassy, common, and porphyritic.

Pumice-Stone

PUM'ICE-STONE, noun The same as pumice.

Pumiceous

PUMI'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to pumice; consisting of pumice or resembling it.

Pummel

PUMMEL. [See Pommel.]

Pump

PUMP, noun [The Latin bombus is of the same family, as is the Eng.bombast.]

1. A hydraulic engine for raising water, by exhausting the incumbent air of a tube or pipe, in consequence of which the water rises in the tube by means of the pressure of the air on the surrounding water. There is however a forcing pump in which the water is raised in the tube by a force applied to a lateral tube, near the bottom of the pump

2. A shoe with a thin sole.

PUMP, verb intransitive To work a pump; to raise water with a pump

PUMP, verb transitive To raise with a pump; as, to pump water.

1. To draw out by artful interrogatories; as, to pump put secrets.

2. To examine by artful questions for the purpose of drawing out secrets.

But pump not me for politics.

Chain-pump, is a chain equipped with a sufficient number of valves at proper distances, which working on two wheels, passes down through one tube and returns through another.

PUMP'-BOLTS, noun Two pieces of iron, one used to fasten the pump-spear to the brake, the other as a fulcrum for the brake to work upon.

PUMP'-BRAKE, noun The arm or handle of a pump

PUMP'-DALE, noun A long wooden tube, used to convey the water from a chain-pump across the ship and through the side.

Pump-Spear

PUMP'-SPEAR, noun The bar to which the upper box of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle.

Pumper

PUMP'ER, noun The person or the instrument that pumps.

PUMP'-GEAR, noun The materials for fitting and repairing pumps.

PUMP'-HOOD, noun A semi-cylindrical frame of wood, covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump.

Pumpion

PUMP'ION, noun A plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita.

Pumpkin

PUMP'KIN, noun A pompion. [This is the common orthography of the word in the United States.]

Pun

PUN, noun An expression in which a word has at once different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation; a low species of wit. Thus a man who had a tall wife named Experience, observed that he had, by long experience, proved the blessings of a married life.

A pun can be no more engraven, than it can be translated.

PUN, verb intransitive To quibble; to use the same word at once in different senses.

PUN, verb transitive To persuade by a pun

Punch

PUNCH, noun [Latin punctum, pungo.] An instrument of iron or steel, used in several arts for perforating holes in plates of metal, and so contrived as to cut out a piece.

PUNCH, noun A drink composed of water sweetened with sugar, with a mixture of lemon juice and spirit.

PUNCH, noun The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. [See Punchinello.]

PUNCH, noun A well set horse with a short back, thin shoulders, broad neck, and well covered with flesh.

1. A short fat fellow.

PUNCH, verb transitive [Latin pungo.]

1. To perforate with an iron instrument, either pointed or not; as, to punch a hole in a plate of metal.

2. In popular usage, to thrust against with something obtuse; as, to punch one with the elbow.

Punchbowl

PUNCH'BOWL, noun A bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is drank.

Punched

PUNCH'ED, participle passive Perforated with a punch.

Puncheon

PUNCH'EON, noun

1. A small piece of steel, on the end of which is engraved a figure or letter, in creux or relievo, with which impressions are stamped on metal or other substance; used in coinage, in forming the matrices of types, and in various arts.

2. In carpentry, a piece of timber placed upright between two posts, whose bearing is too great; also, a piece of timber set upright under the ridge of a building, wherein the legs of a couple, etc. are jointed.

3. A measure of liquids, or a cask containing usually 120 gallons. Rum or spirits is imported from the West Indies in puncheons, but there are often called also hogsheads.

Puncher

PUNCH'ER, noun One that punches.

1. A punch or perforating instrument.

Punchinello

PUNCHINEL'LO, noun A punch; a buffoon.

Punching

PUNCH'ING, participle present tense Perforating with a punch; driving against.

Punchy

PUNCH'Y, adjective Short and thick, or fat.

Punctate

PUNC'TATE

PUNC'TATED, adjective [Latin punctus, pungo.] Pointed.

1. In botany, perforated; full of small holes; having hollow dots scattered over the surface.

Punctated

PUNC'TATED, a. [L. punctus, pungo.] Pointed. 1. In botany, perforated; full of small holes; having hollow dots scattered over the surface.

Punctiform

PUNC'TIFORM, adjective [Latin punctum, point, and form.] Having the form of a point.

Punctilio

PUN'CTIL'IO, noun A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as the punctilios of a public ceremony.

Punctilious

PUNCTIL'IOUS, adjective Very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, ceremony or mutual intercourse; very exact in the observance of rules prescribed by law or custom; sometimes, exact to excess.

Punctiliously

PUNCTIL'IOUSLY, adverb With exactness or great nicety.

Punctiliousness

PUNCTIL'IOUSNESS, noun Exactness in the observance of forms or rules; attentive to nice points of behavior or ceremony.

Puncto

PUNC'TO, noun [Latin punctum, from pungo, to prick.]

1. Nice point of form or ceremony.

2. The point in fencing.

Punctual

PUNC'TUAL, adjective [Latin punctum, a point.]

1. Consisting in a point; as this punctual spot. [Little used.]

2. Exact; observant of nice points; punctilious, particularly in observing time, appointments or promises. It is honorable in a man to be punctual to appointments, or to appointed hours; it is just to be punctual in paying debts.

3. Exact; as a punctual correspondence between a prediction and an event.

4. Done at the exact time; as punctual payment.

Punctualist

PUNC'TUALIST, noun One that is very exact in observing forms and ceremonies.

Punctuality

PUNCTUAL'ITY, noun Nicety; scrupulous exactness. He served his prince with punctuality

1. It is now used chiefly in regard to time. He pays his debts with punctuality He is remarkable for the punctuality of his attendance.

Punctually

PUNC'TUALLY, adverb Nicely; exactly; with scrupulous regard to time, appointments, promises or rules; as, to attend a meeting punctually; to pay debts or rent punctually; to observe punctually one's engagements.

Punctualness

PUNC'TUALNESS, noun Exactness; punctuality.

Punctuate

PUNC'TUATE, verb transitive [Latin punctum, a point.] To mark with points; to designate sentences, clauses or other divisions of a writing by points, which mark the proper pauses.

Punctuated

PUNC'TUATED, participle passive Pointed.

1. Having the divisions marked with points.

Punctuating

PUNC'TUATING, participle present tense Marking with points.

Punctuation

PUNCTUA'TION, noun In grammar, the act or art of pointing a writing or discourse, or the act or art of marking with points the divisions of a discourse into sentences and clauses or members of a sentence. punctuation is performed by four points, the period (.); the colon (: ); the semicolon ( ; ); and the comma (, ). The ancients were unacquainted with punctuation; they wrote without any distinction of members, period or words.

Punctulate

PUNC'TULATE, verb transitive [Latin punctulum.] To mark with small spots. [Not used.]

Puncture

PUNC'TURE, noun [Latin punctura.] The act of perforating with a pointed instrument; or a small hole made by it; as the puncture of a nail, needle or pin.

A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp.

PUNC'TURE, verb intransitive To prick; to pierce with a small pointed instrument; as, to puncture the skin.

Punctured

PUNC'TURED, participle passive Pricked; pierced with a sharp point.

Puncturing

PUNC'TURING, participle present tense Piercing with a sharp point.

Pundit

PUN'DIT, noun In Hindoostan, a learned Bramin; one versed in the Sanscrit language, and in the science, laws and religion of that country.

Pundle

PUN'DLE, noun A short and fat woman. [Not used.]

Pungar

PUN'GAR, noun A fish.

Pungency

PUN'GENCY, noun [Latin pungens, pungo, to prick.]

1. The power of pricking or piercing; as the pungency of a substance.

2. That quality of a substance which produces the sensation of pricking, or affecting the taste like minute sharp points; sharpness; acridness.

3. Power to pierce the mind or excite keen reflections or remorse; as the pungency of a discourse.

4. Acrimoniousness; keenness; as the pungency of wit or of expressions.

Pungent

PUN'GENT, adjective [Latin pungens, pungo.] Pricking; stimulating; as pungent snuff.

The pungent grains of titillating dust.

1. Acrid; affecting the tongue like small sharp points; as the sharp and pungent taste of acids.

2. Piercing; sharp; as pungent pains; pungent grief.

3. Acrimonious; biting.

Punic

PU'NIC, adjective [Latin punicus, pertaining to Carthage or its inhabitants, from Poeni, the Carthaginians.] Pertaining to the Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; deceitful; as punic faith.

PU'NIC, noun The ancient language of the Carthaginians, of which Plautus has left a specimen.

Punice

PU'NICE, noun A wall-louse; a bug. [Not in use.]

Puniceous

PUNI'CEOUS, adjective [Latin puniceus. See Punic.] Purple.

Puniness

PU'NINESS, noun [from puny.] Littleness; pettiness; smallness with feebleness.

Punish

PUN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin punio, from the root of poena, pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.]

1. To pain; to afflict with pain, loss or calamity for a crime or fault; primarily, to afflict with bodily pain, as to punish a thief with pillory or stripes; but the word is applied also to affliction by loss of property, by transportation, banishment, seclusion from society, etc. The laws require murderers to be punished with death. Other offenders are to be punished with fines, imprisonment, hard labor, etc. God punishes men for their sins with calamities personal and national.

2. To chastise; as, a father punishes his child for disobedience.

3. To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender; applied to the crime; as, to punish murder or theft.

Punishable

PUN'ISHABLE, adjective Worthy of punishment.

1. Liable to punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; applied to persons or offenses; as, a man is punishable for robbery or for trespass; a crime is punishable by law.

Punishableness

PUN'ISHABLENESS, noun The quality of deserving or being liable to punishment.

Punished

PUN'ISHED, participle passive Afflicted with pain or evil as the retribution of a crime or offense; chastised.

Punisher

PUN'ISHER, noun One that inflicts pain, loss or other evil for a crime or offense.

Punishing

PUN'ISHING, participle present tense Afflicting with pain, penalty or suffering of any kind, as the retribution of a crime or offense.

Punishment

PUN'ISHMENT, noun Any pain or suffering inflicted on a person for a crime or offense, by the authority to which the offender is subject, either by the constitution of God or of civil society. The punishment of the faults and offenses of children by the parent, is by virtue of the right of government with which the parent is invested by God himself. This species of punishment is chastisement or correction. The punishment of crimes against the laws is inflicted by the supreme power of the state in virtue of the right of government, vested in the prince or legislature. The right of punishment belongs only to persons clothed with authority. Pain, loss or evil willfully inflicted on another for his crimes or offenses by a private unauthorized person, is revenge rather than punishment

Some punishments consist in exile or transportation, others in loss of liberty by imprisonment; some extend to confiscation by forfeiture of lands and goods, others induce a disability of holding offices, of being heirs and the like.

Divine punishments are doubtless designed to secure obedience to divine laws, and uphold the moral order of created intelligent beings.

The rewards and punishments of another life, which the almighty has established as the enforcements of his law, are of weight enough to determine the choice against whatever pleasure or pain this life can show.

Punition

PUNI'TION, noun [Latin punitio, from punio.] Punishment. [Little used.]

Punitive

PU'NITIVE, adjective Awarding or inflicting punishment; that punishes; as punitive law or justice.

Punitory

PU'NITORY, adjective Punishing or tending to punishment.

Punk

PUNK, noun A prostitute; a strumpet.

Punner

PUN'NER, noun A punster, which see.

Punning

PUN'NING, participle present tense [from pun.] Using a word at once in different senses.

PUN'NING, noun The art or practice of using puns; a playing on words.

Punster

PUN'STER, noun One that puns or is skilled in punning; a quibbler; a low wit.

Punt

PUNT, verb intransitive To play at basset and omber.

PUNT, noun [Latin pons, a bridge.] A flat-bottomed boat used in caulking and repairing ships.

Punter

PUNT'ER, noun One that plays in basset against the banker or dealer.

Puny

PU'NY, adjective

1. Properly, young or younger; but in this sense not used.

2. Inferior; petty; of an under rate; small and feeble. This word generally includes the signification of both smallness and feebleness; as a puny animal; a puny subject; a puny power; a puny mind.

PU'NY, noun A young inexperienced person; a novice.

Pup

PUP, verb intransitive [This word appears to be radically the same as the Latin pupa, Eng. babe.] To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.

PUP, noun A puppy.

Pupa

PU'PA, noun [Latin supra.] In natural history, an insect in that state in which it resembles an infant in swaddling clothes. As some insects in this state have a bright exterior, as if gilded, it has been called chrysalis or aurelia, from the Gr. and Latin aurum, gold; but as this gilded appearance belongs to few insects, the term pupa is now more generally used.

Pupil

PU'PIL, noun [Latin pupilla, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.]

The apple of the eye; a little aperture in the middle of the iris and uvea of the eye, through which the rays of light pass to the crystalline humor, to be painted on the retina.

PU'PIL, noun [Latin pupillus, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.]

1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.

2. A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.

3. In the civil law, a boy or girl under the age of puberty, that is, under 14 if a male, and under 12 if a female.

Pupilage

PU'PILAGE, noun The state of being a scholar, or under the care of an instructor for education and discipline.

1. Wardship; minority.

In this latter sense, the Scots use pupilarity.

Pupilary

PU'PILARY, adjective [Latin pupillaris.] Pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Pupivorous

PUPIV'OROUS, adjective [pupa and Latin voro.] Feeding on the larvas and chrysalides of insects.

Puppet

PUP'PET, noun [Latin pupus. See Pup.]

1. A small image in the human form, moved by a wire in a mock drama; a wooden tragedian.

2. A doll.

3. A word of contempt.

Puppet-Player

PUP'PET-PLAYER, noun One that manages the motions of puppets.

Puppet-Show

PUP'PET-SHOW, noun A mock drama performed by wooden images moved by wires.

Puppetman

PUP'PETMAN

PUP'PETM'ASTER, noun The master of a puppet-show.

Puppetry

PUP'PETRY, noun Affectation.

Puppy

PUP'PY, noun [See Pup.] A whelp; the young progeny of a bitch or female of the canine species.

1. Applied to persons, a name expressing extreme contempt.

PUP'PY, verb transitive To bring forth whelps.

Puppyism

PUP'PYISM, noun Extreme meanness.

1. Extreme affectation.

Pur

PUR, verb intransitive To utter a low murmuring continued sound, as a cat.

PUR, verb transitive to signify by purring.

PUR, noun The low murmuring continued sound of a cat.

Purana

PURANA, noun Among the Hindoos, a sacred poem or book.

Puranic

PURAN'IC, adjective Pertaining to the sacred poems of the Hindoos.

Purbeck-Stone

PURBECK-STONE, noun A hard sandstone, the cement of which is calcarious.

Purblind

PUR'BLIND, adjective [said to be from pore and blind.]

Near sighted or dim sighted or; seeing obscurely; as a purblind eye; a purblind mole.

Purblindness

PUR'BLINDNESS, noun Shortness of sight; near sightedness; dimness of vision.

Purchasable

PUR'CHASABLE, adjective [from purchase.] That may be brought, purchased or obtained for a consideration.

Purchase

PUR'CHASE, verb transitive [This word seems to be considered by Blackstone as formed from the Latin perquisitio. This is an error. The word is from the root of chase; purchaser is to pursue to the end or object, and hence to obtain. In Law Latin, purchase the noun, was written purchacium. The legal use of the word in obtaining writs, shows best its true origin; to purchase a writ, is to sue out a writ, that is, to seek it out; for sue, seek, and Latin sequor, are all of one origin, and synonymous with chase.]

1. In its primary and legal sense, to gain, obtain or acquire by any means, except by descent or hereditary right.

2. In common usage, to buy; to obtain property by paying an equivalent in money. It differs from barter only in the circumstance, that in purchasing, the price or equivalent given or secured is money; in bartering, the equivalent is given in goods. We purchase lands or goods for ready money or on credit.

3. To obtain by an expense of labor, danger or other sacrifice; as, to purchase favor with flattery.

A world who would not purchase with a bruise?

4. To expiate or recompense by a fine or forfeit; as, to purchase out abuses with tears and prayer.

5. To sue out or procure, as a writ.

PUR'CHASE, verb intransitive In seaman's language, to draw in ; as, the capstern purchases apace, that is, it draws in the cable apace, it gains it.

PUR'CHASE, noun

1. In law, the act of obtaining or acquiring the title to lands and tenements by money, deed, gift or any means, except by descent; the acquisition of lands and tenements by a man's own act or agreement.

2. In law, the suing out and obtaining a writ.

3. In common usage, the acquisition of the title or property of any thing by rendering an equivalent in money.

It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.

4. That which is purchased; any thing of which the property is obtained by giving an equivalent price in money.

The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase

5. That which is obtained by labor, danger, art, etc.

A beauty waning and distressed widow

Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye--

6. Formerly, robbery, and the thing stolen.

7. Any mechanical power or force applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies.

Purchase-Money

PUR'CHASE-MONEY, noun The money paid for any thing bought.

Purchased

PUR'CHASED, participle passive Obtained or acquired by one's own act or agreement.

1. Obtained by paying an equivalent in money.

2. Obtained by labor, danger, art, etc.

Purchaser

PUR'CHASER, noun In law, one who acquires or obtains by conquest or by deed or gift, or in any manner other than by descent or inheritance. In this sense, the word is by some authors written purchasor.

1. One who obtains or acquires the property of any thing by paying an equivalent in money.

Purchasing

PUR'CHASING, participle present tense Buying; obtaining by one's own act or for a price.

Pure

PURE, adjective [Latin purus.]

1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. pure wine is very scare.

2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil. Habakkuk 1:13. Proverbs 20:9.

3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27.

4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.

5. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.

No hand of strife is pure but that which wins.

6. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.

7. Disinterested; as pure benevolence.

8. Chaste; as a pure virgin.

9. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15.

10. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20.

11. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure

12. Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain. He did that from pure compassion, or pure good nature.

PURE, verb transitive To purify; to cleanse. [Not in use.]

Purely

PU'RELY, adverb In a pure manner; with an entire separation of heterogeneous or foul matter. Isaiah 1:25.

1. Without any mixture of improper or vicious words or phrases.

2. Innocently; without guilt.

3. Merely; absolutely; without connection with any thing else; completely; totally. The meeting was purely accidental.

Pureness

PU'RENESS, noun Clearness; an unmixed state; separation or freedom from any heterogeneous or foreign matter; as the pureness of water or other liquor; the pureness of a metal; the pureness of marl or clay; the pureness of air.

1. Freedom from moral turpitude or guilt.

May we evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living.

2. Simplicity; freedom from mixture or composition.

An essence eternal and spiritual, of absolute pureness and simplicity.

3. Freedom from vicious or improper words, phrases or modes of speech; as pureness of style.

Pure villenage, in the feudal law, is a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord; opposed to privileged villenage.

Purfile

PUR'FILE, noun A sort of ancient trimming for women's gowns, made of tinsel and thread, called also bobbin work.

[The thing and the name are obsolete.]

Purfle

PUR'FLE, verb transitive To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; as, to purfle with blue and white, or with gold and pearl.

PUR'FLE

Purflew

PUR'FLEW, noun A border of embroidered work.

1. In heraldry, ermins, peans or furs which compose a bordure.

Purgament

PURG'AMENT, noun [Latin purgamen.] A cathartic.

Purgation

PURGA'TION, noun [Latin purgatio. See Purge.]

1. The act or operation of cleansing or purifying by separating and carrying off impurities or whatever is superfluous; applied to the body; as, the bowels are cleansed by purgation So also in pharmacy and in chimistry, medicines, metals and minerals are purified by purgation

2. In law, the act of cleansing from a crime, accusation or suspicion of guilt. This was canonical or vulgar. Canonical purgation prescribed by the canon law, was performed before the bishop or his deputy, and by a jury of twelve clerks. The party accused first made oath to his own innocence, and then the twelve clerks or compurgators swore that they believed he spoke the truth; after which, other witnesses were examined upon oath, on behalf of the prisoner only. Vulgar purgation was performed by the ordeal of fire or water, or by combat. [See Ordeal.]

Purgative

PURG'ATIVE, adjective Having the power of cleansing; usually, having the power of evacuating the bowels; cathartic.

PURG'ATIVE, noun A medicine that evacuates the bowels; a cathartic.

Purgatorial

PURGATO'RIAL

PURGATO'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to purgatory.

Purgatorian

PURGATO'RIAN, a. Pertaining to purgatory.

Purgatory

PURG'ATORY, adjective [Latin purgatorius, from purgo, to purge.]

Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.

PURG'ATORY, noun Among catholics, a supposed place or state after death, in which the souls of persons are purified, or in which they expiate such offenses committed in this life, as do not merit eternal damnation. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are supposed to be received into heaven.

Purge

PURGE, verb transitive purj. [Latin purgo.]

1. To cleanse or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign or superfluous; as, to purge the body by evacuation; to purge the Augean stable. It is followed by away, of, or off. We say, to purge away or to purge off filth, and to purge a liquor of its scum.

2. To clear from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime; to purge away sin.

PURGE away our sins, for thy name's sake. Psalms 79:9.

PURGE me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Psalms 51:7.

3. To clear from accusation or the charge of a crime, as in ordeal.

4. To remove what is offensive; to sweep away impurities. Ezekiel 20:38.

5. To clarify; to defecate; as liquors.

PURGE, verb intransitive To become pure by clarification.

1. To have frequent or preternatural evacuations by stool.

PURGE, noun A medicine that evacuates the body by stool; a cathartic.

Purged

PURG'ED, participle passive Purified; cleansed; evacuated.

Purger

PURG'ER, noun A person or thing that purges or cleanses.

1. A cathartic.

Purging

PURG'ING, participle present tense Cleansing; purifying; carrying off impurities or superfluous matter.

PURG'ING, noun A diarrhea or dysentery; preternatural evacuation by stool; looseness of bowels.

Purification

PURIFICA'TION, noun [Latin purificatio. See Purify.]

1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from any thing that which is heterogeneous or foreign to it; as the purification of liquors or of metals.

2. In religion, the act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. purification by washing or by other means, was common to the Hebrews and to pagans. The Mohammedans use purification as a preparation for devotion. 2 Chronicles 30:19. Esther 2:3. Luke 2:22.

3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites and inclinations.

Purificative

PURIF'ICATIVE

PURIF'ICATORY, adjective Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.

Purificatory

PURIF'ICATORY, a. Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.

Purifier

PU'RIFIER, noun [from purify.] That which purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner. Fire was held by the ancients to be an excellent purifier

Puriform

PU'RIFORM, adjective [Latin pus, puris and form.]

Like pus; in the form of pus.

Purify

PU'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin purifico; purus, pure, and facio, to make.]

1. To make pure or clear; to free from extraneous admixture; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

2. To free from pollution ceremonially; to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services.

Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day purify all your raiment. Numbers 31:19.

3. To free from guilt or the defilement of sin; as, to purify the heart.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:14.

4. To clear form improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

PU'RIFY, verb intransitive To grow or become pure or clear. Liquors will gradually purify

Purifying

PU'RIFYING, participle passive Removing foreign or heterogeneous matter; cleansing from pollution; fining; making clear.

PU'RIFYING, noun The act or operation of making pure or of cleansing from extraneous matter or from pollution.

Purim

PU'RIM, noun Among the Jews, the feast of lots, instituted to commemorate their deliverance from the machinations of Haman. Esther 9:26.

Purist

PU'RIST, noun One excessively nice in the use of words.

Puritan

PU'RITAN, noun [from pure.] A dissenter from the church of England. The puritans were so called in derision, on account of their professing to follow the pure word of God, in opposition to all traditions and human constitutions.

Hume gives this name to three parties; the political puritans, who maintained the highest principles of civil liberty; the puritans in discipline, who were averse to the ceremonies and government of the episcopal church; and the doctrinal puritans, who rigidly defended the speculative system of the first reformers.

PU'RITAN, adjective Pertaining to the puritans, or dissenters from the church of England.

Puritanic

PURITAN'IC

PURITAN'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the puritans or their doctrines and practice; exact; rigid; as puritanical notions or opinions; puritanical manners.

Puritanical

PURITAN'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the puritans or their doctrines and practice; exact; rigid; as puritanical notions or opinions; puritanical manners.

Puritanism

PU'RITANISM, noun The notions or practice of puritans.

Puritanize

PU'RITANIZE, verb intransitive To deliver the notions of puritans.

Purity

PU'RITY, noun [Latin puritas, form purus.]

1. Freedom from foreign admixture or heterogeneous matter; as the purity of water, of wine, of spirit; the purity of drugs; the purity of metals.

2. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt; as the purity of a garment.

The purity of a linen vesture.

3. Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; as purity of heart or life.

4. Chastity; freedom from contamination by illicit sexual connection.

5. Freedom from any sinister or improper views; as the purity of motives or designs.

6. Freedom from foreign idioms, from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as purity of style or language.

Purl

PURL, noun [supposed to be contracted from purfle.]

1. An embroidered and puckered border.

2. A kind of edging for bone-lace.

PURL, noun A species of malt liquor; ale or beer medicated with wormwood or aromatic herbs.

PURL, noun Two rounds in knitting.

PURL, verb intransitive

1. To murmur, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions, which occasion a continued series of broken sounds. It is applied only to small streams. Large streams running in like manner, are said to roar. In descriptions of rural scenery, the poets seldom omit a purling brook or stream.

My flowery theme,

A painted mistress or a purling stream.

2. To flow or run with a murmuring sound.

Around th' adjoining brook that purls along

The vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock.

PURL, verb transitive To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

PURL, noun A gentle continued murmur of a small stream of rippling water.

Purlieu

PURLIEU, noun pur'lu. A border; a limit; a certain limited extent or district; originally, the ground near a royal forest, which being severed from it, was made purlieu that is, pure or free from the forest laws.

Purlin

PUR'LIN, noun In architecture, a piece of timber extending from end to end of a building or roof, across and under the rafters, to support them in the middle.

Purling

PURL'ING, participle present tense [from purl.] Murmuring or gurgling, as a brook.

PURL'ING, noun The continued gentle murmur of a small stream.

Purloin

PURLOIN', verb transitive

1. Literally, to take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft.

Your butler purloins your liquor.

2. To take by plagiarism; to steal from books or manuscripts.

Purloined

PURLOIN'ED, participle passive Stolen; taken by plagiarism.

Purloiner

PURLOIN'ER, noun A thief; a plagiary.

Purloining

PURLOIN'ING, participle present tense Stealing; committing literary theft.

PURLOIN'ING, noun Theft; plagiarism.

Purparty

PUR'PARTY, noun In law, a share, part or portion of an estate, which is allotted to a co-parcener by partition.

Purple

PUR'PLE, adjective [Latin purpureus; purpura, a shell from which the color was obtained.]

1. Designating a color composed of red and blue blended, much admired, and formerly the roman emperors wore robes of this color.

2. In poetry, red or livid; dyed with blood.

I view a field of blood,

And Tyber rolling with a purple flood.

PUR'PLE, noun A purple color or dress; hence, imperial government in the Roman empire, as a purple robe was the distinguishing dress of the emperors.

1. A cardinalate.

PUR'PLE, verb transitive [Latin purpuro.] To make purple or to dye of a red color; as hands purpled with blood.

When morn

Purples the east.

Reclining soft in blissful bowers,

Purpled sweet with springing flowers.

Purples

PUR'PLES, noun plural Spots of a livid red on the body; livid eruptions which appear in certain malignant diseases; a purple fever.

Purplish

PUR'PLISH, adjective Somewhat purple.

Purport

PUR'PORT, noun

1. Design or tendency; as the purport of Plato's dialogue.

2. Meaning; import; as the purport of a word or phrase.

PUR'PORT, verb transitive To intend; to intend to show.

1. To mean; to signify.

Purported

PUR'PORTED, participle passive Designed; intended; meant.

Purporting

PUR'PORTING, participle present tense Designing; intending; importing.

Purpose

PUR'POSE, noun [Latin propositum, propono; pro, before, and pono, to set or place.]

1. 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. We believe the Supreme Being created intelligent beings for some benevolent and glorious purpose and if so, how glorious and benevolent must be his purpose in the plan of redemption! The ambition of men is generally directed to one of two purposes, or to both; the acquisition of wealth or of power. We build houses for the purpose of shelter; we labor for the purpose of subsistence.

2. Intention; design. This sense, however, is hardly to be distinguished from the former; as purpose always includes the end in view.

Every purpose is established by counsel. Proverbs 20:18.

Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Ephesians 1:11.

3. End; effect; consequence, good or bad. What good purpose will this answer? We sometimes labor to no purpose Men often employ their time, talents and money for very evil purposes.

To what purpose is this waste? Matthew 26:8.

4. Instance; example. [Not in use.]

5. Conversation. [Not in use.]

Of purpose on purpose with previous design; with the mind directed to that object. On purpose is more generally used, but the true phrase is of purpose

PUR'POSE, verb intransitive To intend; to design; to resolve; to determine on some end or object to be accomplished.

I have purposed it, I will also do it. Isaiah 46:11. Ephesians 3:11.

Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem. Acts 19:21.

Purposed

PUR'POSED, participle passive Intended; designed; applied to things.

1. Resolved; having formed a design or resolution; applied to persons.

I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Psalms 17:3.

Purposeless

PUR'POSELESS, adjective Having no effect. [Little used.]

Purposely

PUR'POSELY, adverb By design; intentionally; with predetermination.

In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths.

So much they scorn the crown, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths.

So much they scorn the crown, that if the throng

By chance go right, they purposely go wrong.

Purpresture

PUR'PRESTURE, noun In law, a nuisance, consisting in an inclosure of or encroachment on something that belongs to the public; as a house erected or inclosure made on the king's demesnes, or of a highway, etc.

Purprise

PUR'PRISE, noun A close or inclosure; also, the whole compass of a manor.