| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| pured | adjective | Purified; refined. |
| puree | noun | A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated. |
| purge | verb t. | To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous., To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner., To clarify; to defecate, as liquors., To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape., To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime., To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal., To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; — often followed by away., To become pure, as by clarification., To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic., The act of purging., That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. |
| purim | noun | A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. |
| purre | noun | The dunlin. |
| purse | noun | 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., Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse., A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse., A specific sum of money, In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters., In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans., To put into a purse., To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit., To steal purses; to rob. |
| pursy | adjective | Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence. |