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- English Word Puritanically Definition In a puritanical manner.
- English Word Puritanism Definition The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.
- English Word Puritanize Definition To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans.
- English Word Puritanized Definition of Puritanize
- English Word Puritanizing Definition of Puritanize
- English Word Purity Definition The condition of being pure.
- English Word Purity Definition freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
- English Word Purity Definition Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
- English Word Purity Definition Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
- English Word Purity Definition Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
- English Word Purity Definition Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.
- English Word Purkinje's cells Definition Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.
- English Word Purl Definition To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
- English Word Purl Definition An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- English Word Purl Definition An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
- English Word Purl Definition To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
- English Word Purl Definition To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- English Word Purl Definition A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- English Word Purl Definition A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
- English Word Purl Definition Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
- English Word Purl Definition A tern.
- English Word Purled Definition of Purl
- English Word Purlieu Definition 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.
- English Word Purlieu Definition Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
- English Word Purlin Definition Alt. of Purline
- English Word Purline Definition In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.
- English Word Purling Definition of Purl
- English Word Purling Definition The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing.
- English Word Purloin Definition To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.
- English Word Purloin Definition To practice theft; to steal.