PPage 500
- English Word Purslain Definition Same as Purslane.
- English Word Purslane Definition An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
- English Word Pursuable Definition Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted.
- English Word Pursual Definition The act of pursuit.
- English Word Pursuance Definition The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
- English Word Pursuance Definition The state of being pursuant; consequence.
- English Word Pursuant Definition Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.
- English Word Pursuant Definition Alt. of Pursuantly
- English Word Pursuantly Definition Agreeably; conformably.
- English Word Pursue Definition To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
- English Word Pursue Definition To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.
- English Word Pursue Definition 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.
- English Word Pursue Definition To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.
- English Word Pursue Definition To follow as an example; to imitate.
- English Word Pursue Definition To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.
- English Word Pursue Definition To go in pursuit; to follow.
- English Word Pursue Definition To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.
- English Word Pursue Definition To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.
- English Word Pursued Definition of Pursue
- English Word Pursuer Definition One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
- English Word Pursuer Definition A plaintiff; a prosecutor.
- English Word Pursuing Definition of Pursue
- English Word Pursuit Definition 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.
- English Word Pursuit Definition 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.
- English Word Pursuit Definition Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.
- English Word Pursuit Definition Prosecution.
- English Word Pursuivant Definition A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.
- English Word Pursuivant Definition The king's messenger; a state messenger.
- English Word Pursuivant Definition To pursue.
- English Word Pursy Definition Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.