Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 150
Purple (n.) (Zool.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.
Purple (n.) pl. (Med.) See Purpura.
Purple (n.) pl. A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
Note: Purple is sometimes used in composition, esp. with participles forming words of obvious signification; as, purple-colored, purple-hued, purple-stained, purple-tinged, purple-tinted, and the like.
French purple. (Chem.) Same as Cudbear.
Purple of Cassius. See Cassius.
Purple of mollusca (Zool.), A coloring matter derived from certain mollusks, which dyes wool, etc., of a purple or crimson color, and is supposed to be the substance of the famous Tyrian dye. It is obtained from Ianthina, and from several species of Purpura, and Murex.
To be born in the purple, To be of princely birth; to be highborn.
Purple (a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
Purple (a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
Hide in the dust thy purple pride. -- Shelley.
Purple (a.) Blood-red; bloody.
May such purple tears be alway shed. -- Shak.
I view a field of blood, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood. -- Dryden.
Purple bird (Zool.), The European purple gallinule. See under Gallinule.
Purple copper ore. (Min.) See Bornite.
Purple grackle (Zool.), The crow blackbird. See under Crow.
Purple martin. See under Martin.
Purple sandpiper. See under Sandpiper.
Purple shell. See Ianthina.
Purpled (imp. & p. p.) of Purple
Purpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purple
Purple (v. t.) To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.
When morn Purples the east. -- Milton.
Reclining soft in blissful bowers, Purpled sweet with springing flowers. -- Fenton.
Purple (a.) Of a color intermediate between red and blue [syn: purple, violet, purplish].
Purple (a.) Excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn: empurpled, over-embellished, purple].
Purple (a.) Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head" [syn: imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal].
Purple (n.) A purple color or pigment [syn: purple, purpleness].
Purple (n.) Of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
Purple (v.) Become purple.
Purple (v.) Color purple [syn: purple, empurple, purpurate].
Purpleheart (n.) A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
Purplewood (n.) Same as Purpleheart.
Purplish (a.) 帶紫色的 Somewhat purple. -- Boyle.
Purplish (a.) Of a color intermediate between red and blue [syn: purple, violet, purplish].
Purport (n.) （文章等的）意義，涵義，主旨 [the S] [（+of）]； 目的，意圖 Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris.
With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. -- Shak.
Purport (n.) Disguise; covering. [Obs.]
For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide. -- Spenser.
Purported (imp. & p. p.) of Purport
Purporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purport
Purport (v. t.) 意指，大意是；表明 [+that]；聲稱，號稱 [Y] [+to-v]；意圖，意欲 To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported. -- Rowe.
Purport (n.) The intended meaning of a communication [syn: intent, purport, spirit].
Purport (n.) The pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation" [syn: drift, purport].
Purport (v.) Have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion".
Purport (v.) Propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon" [syn: aim, purpose, purport, propose].
PURPORT, () pleading. This word means the substance of a writing, as it appears on the face of it, to the eye that reads it; it differs from tenor. (q.v.), 2 Russ. on Cr. 365; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 235; 1 East, R. 179, and the cases in the notes.
Purportless (a.) Without purport or meaning.
Purpose (n.) 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; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
Purpose (n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
Purpose (n.) Instance; example.
Purposed (imp. & p. p.) of Purpose
Purposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purpose
Purpose (v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
Purpose (v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
Purpose (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Purposedly (adv.) In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely.
Purposeful (a.) Important; material.
Purposeless (a.) Having no purpose or result; objectless.
Purposely (adv.) With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly.
Purposer (n.) One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.
Purposer (n.) One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
Purposive (a.) Having or indicating purpose or design.
Purpre (n. & a.) Purple.
Purpresture (n.) 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.
Purprise (n.) A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.
Purpura (n.) 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.
Purpura (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.
Purpurate (a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.
Purpurate (n.) A salt of purpuric acid.
Purpure (n.) 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).
Purpureal (a.) Of a purple color; purple.
Purpureo- () A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.
Purpuric (a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.
Purpuric (a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
Purpurin (n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.
Purpuriparous (a.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
Purpurogenous (a.) Having the power to produce a purple color; as, the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. See Visual purple, under Visual.
Purr (v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.
Purr (n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.
Purre (n.) The dunlin.
Purree (n.) A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.
Purrock (n.) See Puddock, and Parrock.
Purse (n.) 錢包；（女用）手提包 [C]；（錢包形的）小袋，小包 [C] A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
Purse (n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
Purse (n.) A specific sum of money
Purse (n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
Purse (n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
Pursed (imp. & p. p.) of Purse
Pursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purse
Purse (v. t.) 縮攏；皺起；噘起 [（+up）] To put into a purse.
Purse (v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
Purse (v. i.) To steal purses; to rob. [Obs. & R.]
Purse (n.) A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb" [syn: {bag}, {handbag}, {pocketbook}, {purse}].
Purse (n.) A sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse; "he made the contribution out of his own purse"; "he and his wife shared a common purse".
Purse (n.) A small bag for carrying money.
Purse (n.) A sum of money offered as a prize; "the purse barely covered the winner's expenses".
Purse (v.) Contract one's lips into a rounded shape.
Purse (v.) Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: {purse}, {wrinkle}].
Pursefuls (n. pl. ) of Purseful
Purseful (n.) All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
Purse-proud (a.) Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.
Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
Purser (n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.
Pursership (n.) The office of purser.
Purset (n.) A purse or purse net.
Pursiness (n.) State of being pursy.
Pursive (a.) Pursy.
Pursiveness (n.) Pursiness.
Purslain (n.) Same as Purslane.
Purslane (n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
Pursuable (a.) Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted.
Pursual (n.) The act of pursuit.
Pursuance (n.) The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
Pursuance (n.) The state of being pursuant; consequence.
Pursuant (a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.
Pursuant (adv.) Alt. of Pursuantly
Pursuantly (adv.) Agreeably; conformably.
Pursued (imp. & p. p.) of Pursue
Pursuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pursue
Pursue (v. t.) 追趕；追蹤；追捕；（疾病等）糾纏；跟隨 To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
Pursue (v. t.) To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.
Pursue (v. t.) To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.
Pursue (v. t.) To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.
Pursue (v. t.) To follow as an example; to imitate.
Pursue (v. t.) To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.
Pursue (v. i.) 追趕 [（+after）]；繼續進行 To go in pursuit; to follow.
Pursue (v. i.) To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.
Pursue (v. i.) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.
Pursue (v.) [ T ] (Follow) 追趕；追捕；追擊 To follow someone or something, usually to try to catch him, her, or it.
// The car was pursued by helicopters.
// The hunters spent hours pursuing their prey.
// He was killed by the driver of a stolen car who was being hotly pursued by the police.
Pursue (v.) [ T ] (Try to get) 力勸（某人）接受聘用 To try very hard to persuade someone to accept a job.
// The company has been pursuing Holton for some time, but so far he has rejected all their offers.
Pursue (v.) [ T ] (Try to get) 追問，追查，追究 To try to discover information about a subject.
// We will not be pursuing this matter any further.
// The police are currently pursuing several lines of inquiry into the case.
// I don't think this idea is worth pursuing any further.
// The press has pursued this story relentlessly.
Pursue (v.) [ T ] (Try to get) 追求（某人） To try very hard to persuade someone to have a relationship with you.
// He's been pursuing her for months and yet she's so clearly not interested.
Pursue (v.) [ T ] (Try to do) (C1) 追求，從事，實行 If you pursue a plan, activity, or situation, you try to do it or achieve it, usually over a long period of time.
// He decided to pursue a career in television.
// We need to decide soon what marketing strategy we should pursue for these new products.
// Michael Evans is leaving the company to pursue his own business interests.
// She is ruthless in pursuing her goals.
Pursuer (n.) [C] 追趕者；追捕者；追求者；從事者；研究者 One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
Pursuer (n.) 【蘇格蘭】起訴者；原告 A plaintiff; a prosecutor.
Pursuit (n.) 追蹤，追擊 [U] [（+of）]；追求，尋求 [U] [（+of）]；繼續進行，從事 [U]；事務；職業；消遣 [C] 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. -- Clarendon.
Pursuit (n.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.
Pursuit (n.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.