PUNICEOUS — PURSENET NWAD PUNICEOUS.1

PUNICEOUS, a. [L. puniceus. See Punic.] Purple. NWAD PUNICEOUS.1

PUNINESS, n. [from puny.] Littleness; pettiness; smallness with feebleness. NWAD PUNINESS.1

PUNISH, v.t. [L. punio, from the root of poena, pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.] NWAD PUNISH.1

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. NWAD PUNISH.2

2. To chastise; as, a father punishes his child for disobedience. NWAD PUNISH.3

3. To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender; applied to the crime; as, to punish murder or theft. NWAD PUNISH.4

PUNISHABLE, a. Worthy of punishment. NWAD PUNISHABLE.1

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. NWAD PUNISHABLE.2

PUNISHABLENESS, n. The quality of deserving or being liable to punishment. NWAD PUNISHABLENESS.1

PUNISHED, pp. Afflicted with pain or evil as the retribution of a crime or offense; chastised. NWAD PUNISHED.1

PUNISHER, n. One that inflicts pain, loss or other evil for a crime or offense. NWAD PUNISHER.1

PUNISHING, ppr. Afflicting with pain, penalty or suffering of any kind, as the retribution of a crime or offense. NWAD PUNISHING.1

PUNISHMENT, n. 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. NWAD PUNISHMENT.1

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. NWAD PUNISHMENT.2

Divine punishments are doubtless designed to secure obedience to divine laws, and uphold the moral order of created intelligent beings. NWAD PUNISHMENT.3

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. NWAD PUNISHMENT.4

PUNITION, n. [L. punitio, from punio.] Punishment. [Little used.] NWAD PUNITION.1

PUNITIVE, a. Awarding or inflicting punishment; that punishes; as punitive law or justice. NWAD PUNITIVE.1

PUNITORY, a. Punishing or tending to punishment. NWAD PUNITORY.1

PUNK, n. A prostitute; a strumpet. NWAD PUNK.1

PUNNER, n. A punster, which see. NWAD PUNNER.1

PUNNING, ppr. [from pun.] Using a word at once in different senses. NWAD PUNNING.1

PUNNING, n. The art or practice of using puns; a playing on words. NWAD PUNNING.2

PUNSTER, n. One that puns or is skilled in punning; a quibbler; a low wit. NWAD PUNSTER.1

PUNT, v.i. To play at basset and omber. NWAD PUNT.1

PUNT, n. [L. pons, a bridge.] A flat-bottomed boat used in caulking and repairing ships. NWAD PUNT.2

PUNTER, n. One that plays in basset against the banker or dealer. NWAD PUNTER.1

PUNY, a. NWAD PUNY.1

1. Properly, young or younger; but in this sense not used. NWAD PUNY.2

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. NWAD PUNY.3

PUNY, n. A young inexperienced person; a novice. NWAD PUNY.4

PUP, v.i. [This word appears to be radically the same as the L. pupa, Eng. babe.] To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species. NWAD PUP.1

PUP, n. A puppy. NWAD PUP.2

PUPA, n. [L. 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 L. aurum, gold; but as this gilded appearance belongs to few insects, the term pupa is now more generally used. NWAD PUPA.1

PUPIL, n. [L. pupilla, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.] NWAD PUPIL.1

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. NWAD PUPIL.2

PUPIL, n. [L. pupillus, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.] NWAD PUPIL.3

1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. NWAD PUPIL.4

2. A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian. NWAD PUPIL.5

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. NWAD PUPIL.6

PUPILAGE, n. The state of being a scholar, or under the care of an instructor for education and discipline. NWAD PUPILAGE.1

1. Wardship; minority. NWAD PUPILAGE.2

In this latter sense, the Scots use pupilarity. NWAD PUPILAGE.3

PUPILARY, a. [L. pupillaris.] Pertaining to a pupil or ward. NWAD PUPILARY.1

PUPIVOROUS, a. [pupa and L. voro.] Feeding on the larvas and chrysalides of insects. NWAD PUPIVOROUS.1

PUPPET, n. [L. pupus. See Pup.] NWAD PUPPET.1

1. A small image in the human form, moved by a wire in a mock drama; a wooden tragedian. NWAD PUPPET.2

2. A doll. NWAD PUPPET.3

3. A word of contempt. NWAD PUPPET.4

PUPPETMAN, PUPPETMASTER, n. The master of a puppet-show. NWAD PUPPETMAN.1

PUPPET-PLAYER, n. One that manages the motions of puppets. NWAD PUPPET-PLAYER.1

PUPPETRY, n. Affectation. NWAD PUPPETRY.1

PUPPET-SHOW, n. A mock drama performed by wooden images moved by wires. NWAD PUPPET-SHOW.1

PUPPY, n. [See Pup.] A whelp; the young progeny of a bitch or female of the canine species. NWAD PUPPY.1

1. Applied to persons, a name expressing extreme contempt. NWAD PUPPY.2

PUPPY, v.t. To bring forth whelps. NWAD PUPPY.3

PUPPYISM, n. Extreme meanness. NWAD PUPPYISM.1

1. Extreme affectation. NWAD PUPPYISM.2

PUR, v.i. To utter a low murmuring continued sound, as a cat. NWAD PUR.1

PUR, v.t. to signify by purring. NWAD PUR.2

PUR, n. The low murmuring continued sound of a cat. NWAD PUR.3

PURANA, n. Among the Hindoos, a sacred poem or book. NWAD PURANA.1

PURANIC, a. Pertaining to the sacred poems of the Hindoos. NWAD PURANIC.1

PURBECK-STONE, n. A hard sandstone, the cement of which is calcarious. NWAD PURBECK-STONE.1

PURBLIND, a. [said to be from pore and blind.] NWAD PURBLIND.1

Near sighted or dim sighted or; seeing obscurely; as a purblind eye; a purblind mole. NWAD PURBLIND.2

PURBLINDNESS, n. Shortness of sight; near sightedness; dimness of vision. NWAD PURBLINDNESS.1

PURCHASABLE, a. [from purchase.] That may be brought, purchased or obtained for a consideration. NWAD PURCHASABLE.1

PURCHASE, v.t. [This word seems to be considered by Blackstone as formed from the L. 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 L. sequor, are all of one origin, and synonymous with chase.] NWAD PURCHASE.1

1. In its primary and legal sense, to gain, obtain or acquire by any means, except by descent or hereditary right. NWAD PURCHASE.2

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. NWAD PURCHASE.3

3. To obtain by an expense of labor, danger or other sacrifice; as, to purchase favor with flattery. NWAD PURCHASE.4

A world who would not purchase with a bruise? NWAD PURCHASE.5

4. To expiate or recompense by a fine or forfeit; as, to purchase out abuses with tears and prayer. NWAD PURCHASE.6

5. To sue out or procure, as a writ. NWAD PURCHASE.7

PURCHASE, v.i. In seaman’s language, to draw in; as, the capstern purchases apace, that is, it draws in the cable apace, it gains it. NWAD PURCHASE.8

PURCHASE, n. NWAD PURCHASE.9

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. NWAD PURCHASE.10

2. In law, the suing out and obtaining a writ. NWAD PURCHASE.11

3. In common usage, the acquisition of the title or property of any thing by rendering an equivalent in money. NWAD PURCHASE.12

It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. NWAD PURCHASE.13

4. That which is purchased; any thing of which the property is obtained by giving an equivalent price in money. NWAD PURCHASE.14

The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase. NWAD PURCHASE.15

5. That which is obtained by labor, danger, art, etc. NWAD PURCHASE.16

A beauty waning and distressed widow NWAD PURCHASE.17

Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye-- NWAD PURCHASE.18

6. Formerly, robbery, and the thing stolen. NWAD PURCHASE.19

7. Any mechanical power or force applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies. NWAD PURCHASE.20

PURCHASED, pp. Obtained or acquired by one’s own act or agreement. NWAD PURCHASED.1

1. Obtained by paying an equivalent in money. NWAD PURCHASED.2

2. Obtained by labor, danger, art, etc. NWAD PURCHASED.3

PURCHASE-MONEY, n. The money paid for any thing bought. NWAD PURCHASE-MONEY.1

PURCHASER, n. 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. NWAD PURCHASER.1

1. One who obtains or acquires the property of any thing by paying an equivalent in money. NWAD PURCHASER.2

PURCHASING, ppr. Buying; obtaining by one’s own act or for a price. NWAD PURCHASING.1

PURE, a. [L. purus.] NWAD PURE.1

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. NWAD PURE.2

2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy. NWAD PURE.3

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil. Habakkuk 1:13; Proverbs 20:11. NWAD PURE.4

3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27. NWAD PURE.5

4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics. NWAD PURE.6

5. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent. NWAD PURE.7

No hand of strife is pure, but that which wins. NWAD PURE.8

6. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition. NWAD PURE.9

7. Disinterested; as pure benevolence. NWAD PURE.10

8. Chaste; as a pure virgin. NWAD PURE.11

9. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:16. NWAD PURE.12

10. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20. NWAD PURE.13

11. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure. NWAD PURE.14

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. NWAD PURE.15

PURE, v.t. To purify; to cleanse. [Not in use.] NWAD PURE.16

PURELY, adv. In a pure manner; with an entire separation of heterogeneous or foul matter. Isaiah 1:25. NWAD PURELY.1

1. Without any mixture of improper or vicious words or phrases. NWAD PURELY.2

2. Innocently; without guilt. NWAD PURELY.3

3. Merely; absolutely; without connection with any thing else; completely; totally. The meeting was purely accidental. NWAD PURELY.4

PURENESS, n. 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. NWAD PURENESS.1

1. Freedom from moral turpitude or guilt. NWAD PURENESS.2

May we evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living. NWAD PURENESS.3

2. Simplicity; freedom from mixture or composition. NWAD PURENESS.4

An essence eternal and spiritual, of absolute pureness and simplicity. NWAD PURENESS.5

3. Freedom from vicious or improper words, phrases or modes of speech; as pureness of style. NWAD PURENESS.6

Pure villenage, in the feudal law, is a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord; opposed to privileged villenage. NWAD PURENESS.7

PURFILE, n. A sort of ancient trimming for women’s gowns, made of tinsel and thread, called also bobbin work. NWAD PURFILE.1

[The thing and the name are obsolete.] NWAD PURFILE.2

PURFLE, v.t. To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; as, to purfle with blue and white, or with gold and pearl. NWAD PURFLE.1

PURFLE, PURFLEW, n. A border of embroidered work. NWAD PURFLE.2

1. In heraldry, ermins, peans or furs which compose a bordure. NWAD PURFLE.3

PURGAMENT, n. [L. purgamen.] A cathartic. NWAD PURGAMENT.1

PURGATION, n. [L. purgatio. See Purge.] NWAD PURGATION.1

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. NWAD PURGATION.2

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.] NWAD PURGATION.3

PURGATIVE, a. Having the power of cleansing; usually, having the power of evacuating the bowels; cathartic. NWAD PURGATIVE.1

PURGATIVE, n. A medicine that evacuates the bowels; a cathartic. NWAD PURGATIVE.2

PURGATORIAL, PURGATORIAN, a. Pertaining to purgatory. NWAD PURGATORIAL.1

PURGATORY, a. [L. purgatorius, from purgo, to purge.] NWAD PURGATORY.1

Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. NWAD PURGATORY.2

PURGATORY, n. 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. NWAD PURGATORY.3

PURGE, v.t. purj. [L. purgo.] NWAD PURGE.1

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. NWAD PURGE.2

2. To clear from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime; to purge away sin. NWAD PURGE.3

Purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake. Psalm 79:9. NWAD PURGE.4

Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Psalm 51:7. NWAD PURGE.5

3. To clear from accusation or the charge of a crime, as in ordeal. NWAD PURGE.6

4. To remove what is offensive; to sweep away impurities. Ezekiel 20:38. NWAD PURGE.7

5. To clarify; to defecate; as liquors. NWAD PURGE.8

PURGE, v.i. To become pure by clarification. NWAD PURGE.9

1. To have frequent or preternatural evacuations by stool. NWAD PURGE.10

PURGE, n. A medicine that evacuates the body by stool; a cathartic. NWAD PURGE.11

PURGED, pp. Purified; cleansed; evacuated. NWAD PURGED.1

PURGER, n. A person or thing that purges or cleanses. NWAD PURGER.1

1. A cathartic. NWAD PURGER.2

PURGING, ppr. Cleansing; purifying; carrying off impurities or superfluous matter. NWAD PURGING.1

PURGING, n. A diarrhea or dysentery; preternatural evacuation by stool; looseness of bowels. NWAD PURGING.2

PURIFICATION, n. [L. purificatio. See Purify.] NWAD PURIFICATION.1

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. NWAD PURIFICATION.2

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 2:12; Luke 2:22. NWAD PURIFICATION.3

3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites and inclinations. NWAD PURIFICATION.4

PURIFICATIVE, PURIFICATORY, a. Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. NWAD PURIFICATIVE.1

PURIFIER, n. [from purify.] That which purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner. Fire was held by the ancients to be an excellent purifier. NWAD PURIFIER.1

PURIFORM, a. [L. pus, puris and form.] NWAD PURIFORM.1

Like pus; in the form of pus. NWAD PURIFORM.2

PURIFY, v.t. [L. purifico; purus, pure, and facio, to make.] NWAD PURIFY.1

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. NWAD PURIFY.2

2. To free from pollution ceremonially; to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services. NWAD PURIFY.3

Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day purify all your raiment. Numbers 31:19-20. NWAD PURIFY.4

3. To free from guilt or the defilement of sin; as, to purify the heart. NWAD PURIFY.5

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. NWAD PURIFY.6

4. To clear form improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. NWAD PURIFY.7

PURIFY, v.i. To grow or become pure or clear. Liquors will gradually purify. NWAD PURIFY.8

PURIFYING, pp. Removing foreign or heterogeneous matter; cleansing from pollution; fining; making clear. NWAD PURIFYING.1

PURIFYING, n. The act or operation of making pure or of cleansing from extraneous matter or from pollution. NWAD PURIFYING.2

PURIM, n. Among the Jews, the feast of lots, instituted to commemorate their deliverance from the machinations of Haman. Esther 9:26-32. NWAD PURIM.1

PURIST, n. One excessively nice in the use of words. NWAD PURIST.1

PURITAN, n. [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. NWAD PURITAN.1

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. NWAD PURITAN.2

PURITAN, a. Pertaining to the puritans, or dissenters from the church of England. NWAD PURITAN.3

PURITANIC, PURITANICAL, a. Pertaining to the puritans or their doctrines and practice; exact; rigid; as puritanical notions or opinions; puritanical manners. NWAD PURITANIC.1

PURITANISM, n. The notions or practice of puritans. NWAD PURITANISM.1

PURITANIZE, v.i. To deliver the notions of puritans. NWAD PURITANIZE.1

PURITY, n. [L. puritas, form purus.] NWAD PURITY.1

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. NWAD PURITY.2

2. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt; as the purity of a garment. NWAD PURITY.3

The purity of a linen vesture. NWAD PURITY.4

3. Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; as purity of heart or life. NWAD PURITY.5

4. Chastity; freedom from contamination by illicit sexual connection. NWAD PURITY.6

5. Freedom from any sinister or improper views; as the purity of motives or designs. NWAD PURITY.7

6. Freedom from foreign idioms, from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as purity of style or language. NWAD PURITY.8

PURL, n. [supposed to be contracted from purfle.] NWAD PURL.1

1. An embroidered and puckered border. NWAD PURL.2

2. A kind of edging for bone-lace. NWAD PURL.3

PURL, n. A species of malt liquor; ale or beer medicated with wormwood or aromatic herbs. NWAD PURL.4

PURL, n. Two rounds in knitting. NWAD PURL.5

PURL, v.i. NWAD PURL.6

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. NWAD PURL.7

My flowery theme, NWAD PURL.8

A painted mistress or a purling stream. NWAD PURL.9

2. To flow or run with a murmuring sound. NWAD PURL.10

Around th’ adjoining brook that purls along NWAD PURL.11

The vocal grove, now fretting o’er a rock. NWAD PURL.12

PURL, v.t. To decorate with fringe or embroidery. NWAD PURL.13

PURL, n. A gentle continued murmur of a small stream of rippling water. NWAD PURL.14

PURLIEU, n. 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. NWAD PURLIEU.1

PURLIN, n. 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. NWAD PURLIN.1

PURLING, ppr. [from purl.] Murmuring or gurgling, as a brook. NWAD PURLING.1

PURLING, n. The continued gentle murmur of a small stream. NWAD PURLING.2

PURLOIN, v.t. NWAD PURLOIN.1

1. Literally, to take or carry away for one’s self; hence, to steal; to take by theft. NWAD PURLOIN.2

Your butler purloins your liquor. NWAD PURLOIN.3

2. To take by plagiarism; to steal from books or manuscripts. NWAD PURLOIN.4

PURLOINED, pp. Stolen; taken by plagiarism. NWAD PURLOINED.1

PURLOINER, n. A thief; a plagiary. NWAD PURLOINER.1

PURLOINING, ppr. Stealing; committing literary theft. NWAD PURLOINING.1

PURLOINING, n. Theft; plagiarism. NWAD PURLOINING.2

PURPARTY, n. In law, a share, part or portion of an estate, which is allotted to a co-parcener by partition. NWAD PURPARTY.1

PURPLE, a. [L. purpureus; purpura, a shell from which the color was obtained.] NWAD PURPLE.1

1. Designating a color composed of red and blue blended, much admired, and formerly the roman emperors wore robes of this color. NWAD PURPLE.2

2. In poetry, red or livid; dyed with blood. NWAD PURPLE.3

I view a field of blood, NWAD PURPLE.4

And Tyber rolling with a purple flood. NWAD PURPLE.5

PURPLE, n. A purple color or dress; hence, imperial government in the Roman empire, as a purple robe was the distinguishing dress of the emperors. NWAD PURPLE.6

1. A cardinalate. NWAD PURPLE.7

PURPLE, v.t. [L. purpuro.] To make purple, or to dye of a red color; as hands purpled with blood. NWAD PURPLE.8

When morn NWAD PURPLE.9

Purples the east. NWAD PURPLE.10

Reclining soft in blissful bowers, NWAD PURPLE.11

Purpled sweet with springing flowers. NWAD PURPLE.12

PURPLES, n. plu. Spots of a livid red on the body; livid eruptions which appear in certain malignant diseases; a purple fever. NWAD PURPLES.1

PURPLISH, a. Somewhat purple. NWAD PURPLISH.1

PURPORT, n. NWAD PURPORT.1

1. Design or tendency; as the purport of Plato’s dialogue. NWAD PURPORT.2

2. Meaning; import; as the purport of a word or phrase. NWAD PURPORT.3

PURPORT, v.t. To intend; to intend to show. NWAD PURPORT.4

1. To mean; to signify. NWAD PURPORT.5

PURPORTED, pp. Designed; intended; meant. NWAD PURPORTED.1

PURPORTING, ppr. Designing; intending; importing. NWAD PURPORTING.1

PURPOSE, n. [L. propositum, propono; pro, before, and pono, to set or place.] NWAD PURPOSE.1

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. NWAD PURPOSE.2

2. Intention; design. This sense, however, is hardly to be distinguished from the former; as purpose always includes the end in view. NWAD PURPOSE.3

Every purpose is established by counsel. Proverbs 20:18. NWAD PURPOSE.4

Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Ephesians 1:11. NWAD PURPOSE.5

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. NWAD PURPOSE.6

To what purpose is this waste? Matthew 26:8. NWAD PURPOSE.7

4. Instance; example. [Not in use.] NWAD PURPOSE.8

5. Conversation. [Not in use.] NWAD PURPOSE.9

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. NWAD PURPOSE.10

PURPOSE, v.t. To intend; to design; to resolve; to determine on some end or object to be accomplished. NWAD PURPOSE.11

I have purposed it, I will also do it. Isaiah 46:11; Ephesians 3:11. NWAD PURPOSE.12

Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem. Acts 19:21. NWAD PURPOSE.13

PURPOSED, pp. Intended; designed; applied to things. NWAD PURPOSED.1

1. Resolved; having formed a design or resolution; applied to persons. NWAD PURPOSED.2

I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Psalm 17:3. NWAD PURPOSED.3

PURPOSELESS, a. Having no effect. [Little used.] NWAD PURPOSELESS.1

PURPOSELY, adv. By design; intentionally; with predetermination. NWAD PURPOSELY.1

In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. NWAD PURPOSELY.2

So much they scorn the crown, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. NWAD PURPOSELY.3

So much they scorn the crown, that if the throng NWAD PURPOSELY.4

By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. NWAD PURPOSELY.5

PURPRESTURE, n. 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. NWAD PURPRESTURE.1

PURPRISE, n. A close or inclosure; also, the whole compass of a manor. NWAD PURPRISE.1

PURPURATE, n. A compound of purpuric acid and a salifiable base. NWAD PURPURATE.1

PURPURE, n. In heraldry, purple, represented in engraving by diagonal lines. NWAD PURPURE.1

PURPURIC, a. Purpuric acid is produced by the action of nitric acid upon the lithic or uric acid. NWAD PURPURIC.1

PURR, v.i. To murmur as a cat. [See Pur.] NWAD PURR.1

PURR, n. A sea lark. NWAD PURR.2

PURRE, n. Cyderkin or perkin; the liquor made by steeping the gross matter of pressed apples. NWAD PURRE.1

PURRING, ppr. Murmuring as a cat. NWAD PURRING.1

PURSE, n. purs. [L. byrsa, an ox hide; Gr. id.] NWAD PURSE.1

1. A small bag in which money is contained or carried in the pocket. It was formerly made of leather, and is still made of this material by common people. It is usually of silk net-work. NWAD PURSE.2

2. A sum of money offered as the prize of winning in a horse race. NWAD PURSE.3

3. In turkey, a sum of money, about f50 sterling, or $222. NWAD PURSE.4

4. The public coffers; the treasury; as, to exhaust a nation’s purse, or the public purse. NWAD PURSE.5

Long purse, or heavy purse, wealth; riches. NWAD PURSE.6

Light purse, or empty purse, poverty, or want of resources. NWAD PURSE.7

Sword and purse, the military power and wealth of a nation. NWAD PURSE.8

PURSE, v.t. To put in a purse. NWAD PURSE.9

1. To contract into folds or wrinkles. NWAD PURSE.10

Thou didst contract and purse thy blow. NWAD PURSE.11

PURSED, pp. Put in a purse. NWAD PURSED.1

1. Contracted into folds or wrinkles. NWAD PURSED.2

PURSENET, n. purs’net. A net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. NWAD PURSENET.1