tc private.-Public law is often synonymous with the law of nations. PUBLIC, n. The general body of mankind or of a nation, state or community; the people, indefinitely-In public, in open view; before the people at large; not in private. PUBLIC-HOUSE, n. A house of entertainment. PUB'LI-CAN, n. [L. publicanus.] 1. A collector of toll or tribute. 2. The keeper of a public house; an inn-keeper. PUB-LI-€Ã'TION, n. [L. publicatio.] 1. The act of publishing or offering to public notice; notification to a people at large, either by words, writing or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation. 2. The act of offering a book or writing to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. 3. A work printed and publised; any pamphlet or book offered for sale or to public notice. PUBLIC-HEARTED, a. Public-spirited. Clarendon. PUBLICIST, n. A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who treats of the rights of nations. Kent. PUB-LICI-TY, n. [Fr. publicité.] The state of being public or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety. PUBLIC-LY, adv. 1. Openly; with exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment. 2. In the name of the community.

PUBLIC-MIND-ED, a. Disposed to promote the public interest. [Little used.]

PUBLIC MIND ED-NESS, n. A disposition to promote the public weal or advantage. [Little used.] South. PÚBLIC-NESS, n. 1. The state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large. 2. State of belonging to the community.

PUBLIC SPIRIT-ED, a. 1. Having or exercising a disposition to advance the interest of the community; disposed to make private sacrifices for the public good. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good.

PUBLIC-SPIRIT-ED-NESS, a. A disposition to advance the public good, or a willingness to make sacrifices of private interest to promote the common weal. PUBLISH, v. t. [Fr. publier; Sp. publicar; It. pubblicare ¡ L. publico.] 1. To discover or make known to mankind or to people in general what before was private or unknown; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or edict. 2. To send a book into the world; or to sell or offer for sale a book, map or print. 3. To utter; to put off or into circulation. Laws of Mass. 4. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church.

PUBLISHED, pp. Made known to the community; divulged; promulgated; proclaimed.

PUBLISHER, n. 1. One who makes known what was before private or unknown; one that divulges, promulgates or proclaims. 2. One who sends a book or writing into the world for common use; one that offers a book, pamphlet, &c., for sale. 3. One who utters, passes or puts into circulation a counterfeit paper.

PUB LISH-ING, ppr. Making known; divulging; promul gating; proclaiming; selling or offering publicly for sale; uttering.

PUBLISH-MENT, n. In popular usage in New England, a notice of intended marriage.

PUC-COON', n. A plant, a species of sanguinaria; the blood root. Fam. of Plants,

PUCE, a. Of a dark brown color. Qu.

PC CEL AGE, n. [Fr.) A state of virginity. [Little used.] Robinson.

PCCE-RON, n. [Fr.] The name of a tribe of small insects; the aphis, vine-fretter, or plant-louse.

PUCK, n. [Ice., Sw. puke; Scot. puck.] A demon; a mischievous spirit. Shak.

PUCK BALL, or PUCK-FIST, n. [from puck.] A kind of mushroom full of dust. Dict.

PUCKER, v. t. [Sp. bucke.] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate.

PUCKER, n. A fold or wrinkle, or a collection of folds.
PUCK ERED, pp. Gathered in folds; wrinkled.
PUCKER-ING, ppr. Wrinkling.

PUDDER, n. (this is supposed to be the same as pother.]

A tummit; a confused noise, a bustle. [Vulgar.] Locke. PUDDER, . i. To make a tumult or bustle. Locke. PUD-DER, v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; rulgarly, to bother. Locke.

PUDDING, ®. [W. poten: Fr. boudin : G., Dan. pudding, Sw. puding. 1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but usually a conipound of flour, of meal of maize, with milk and eggs, Sometimes enriched with raisins and called plum pudding. 2. An intestine. Shak. 3. An intestine stuffed with meat, &c. now called a sausage. 4. Proverbially, food or victuals.

PUD DING, or PUD'DEN-ING, n. In seamen's language, a thick wreath or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle towards the ends, and fastened about the mast below the trusses, to prevent the yards from falling down when the ropes sustaining them are shot away.

PUDDING-GRASS, n. A plant of the genus mentha PUDDING-GROSS, n. A plant. Qu. Johnson. PUDDING-PIE, n. A pudding with meat baked in it. PUDDING PIPE-TREE, n. A plant of the genus cassia. PUDDING-SLEEVE, n. A sleeve of the full dress clerical gown. Swift.

PUDDING-STONE, n. Conglomerate; a coarse sandstone composed of silicious pebbles, flint, &c. united by a cement. Cleaveland,

PUD DING-TIME, . 1. The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the first dish set on the table, or rather first eaten. 2. The nick of time; critical time.

PUDDLE, n. [Ir. boidhlia; G. pfutze.] A small stand of dirty water; a muddy plash. Addison.

PUDDLE, v. t. 1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt and water. 2. To make thick or

close.

PUDDLE, v. i. To make a dirty stir. Junius.
PUD PLED, pp. Made muddy or foul.
PUDDLING, ppr. Making muddy or dirty.
PUDDLY, a. Muddy; foul; dirty. Carew.
PUD DOCK, or PUR ROCK, n. [for paddock, or parrack.1
A small inclosure. [Provincial in England.]
PUDEN-CY, n. [L pudens.] Modesty; shamefacedness

Shak.

PU-DEN DA, n. plu. [L.] The parts of generation.
PC'DIC, [L. pudicus.] Pertaining to the parts which
PO'DI-CAL, modesty requires to be concealed.
PU-DICI-TY, n. [Fr. pudicité; L. pudicitia.] Modesty;
chastity. Howell.

POE-FEL-LOW. See PEW-FELLOW.

PŨ E-RILE, a. [Fr.; L. puerilis.] Boyish: childish; trifling; as, a puerile amusement. Pope PU-E-KILÁ-TY, n. [Fr. puerilité; L. puerilitas.] 1. Childishness; boyishness; the manners or actions of a boy; that which is trifling.-2. In discourse, a thought or expression which is flat, insipid or childish.

PU-ER PE-RAL, a. [L. puerpera.] Pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.

PU-ER PE-ROUS, a. [L. puerperus.] Bearing children; lying in.

PC ET. See PEWET.

PUFF, n. [D. pof; G., Dan. puff.] 1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; a quick forcible blast a whiff. 2. A sudden and short blast of wind. 3. A fungous ball filled with dust. 4. Any thing light and porous, or something swelled and light. 5. A substance of loose texture, used to sprinkle powder on the hair. 6. A tumid or exaggerated statement or commendation. Cibber.

PUFF, v. i. [G. puffen; D. poffen.] 1. To drive air from the mouth in a single and quick blast. 2. To swell the cheeks with air. 3. To blow, as an expression of scorn or contempt. 4. To breathe with vehemence, as after violent exertion. 5. To do or move with hurry, agitation and a tumid, bustling appearance. 6. To swell with air; to dilaie or inflate.

PUFF, v. t. 1. To drive with a blast of wind or air. 2. To swell; to inflate; to dilate with air. 3. To swell; to inflate; to blow up. 4. To drive with a blast in scorn or contempt. 5. To praise with exaggeration. PUFF-BALL, n. A fungus or mushroom full of dust. PUFFED, pp. Driven out suddenly, as air or breath; blown up; swelled with air; inflated with vanity or pride; praised.

PUFFER, n. One that puffs; one that praises with noisy

commendation.

PUFFIN, n. 1. A water-fowl of the genus alea or auk. 2.
A kind of fish. 3. A kind of fungus with dust; a fuzzball
PUFF IN-AP-PLE, n. A sort of apple so called.
PUFFI NESS, n. State or quality of being turgid.
PUFFING, ppr. Driving out the breath with a single, sud-
den blast; inflating, praising pompously.

PUFFING-LY, ade. I. Tumidly, with swell. 2. With
vehement breathing or shortness of breath.
PUFFY, 4. 1. Swelled with air or any soft matter; tumid
with a soft substance. 2. Tumid; turgid; bombastic.
PUG, n. [Sax., Sw. piga; Dan. pigr.] The name given to
a little animal treated with familiarity, as a monkey, or
a little dog.

† PUG GERED, for puckered. More

FUGH, exclam. A word used in contempt or disdain. POGIL, n. [It. pugillo: Fr. pugile; L. pugulum.] As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers. Bacon.

PO GIL ISM, . [L., Sp. pugil ] The practice of boxing or fighting with the fist.

POGILIST, n. A boxer; one who fights with his fists.
PU-GIL IS/TIE, a. Pertaining to boxing or fighting with

the fist.

PUG-NA CIOUS, a. [L. pugnar.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome tighting. More PUG NACI-TY, ". Inclination to fight; quarrelsomeness [Little used.] Bacon.

POISINE, pu'ny) a or inferio in rank POIS-SANCE, n.

Milton.

[Fr. puis and né.] 1. In law, younger 2. Later in date; [obs.] Hale. [Fr.] Power; strength; might; force.

POIS-SANT, a. Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible. Milton.

PUIS-SANT-LY, adv. Powerfully; with great strength. PUKE, v. i. [Heb. p2; L. vacuo.] To vomit; to eject from the stomach. Shak.

PUKE, n. A vomit; a medicine which excites vomiting.
PUKE, a. Of a color between black and russet. Shak.
PUKED, pp. Vomited.

POKER, n. A medicine causing vomiting.
POKING, ppr. Vomiting.

PULCHRI-TUDE, n. [L. pulchritudo.] 1. Beauty; hand-
someness; grace; comeliness; that quality of form which
pleases the eye. 2. Moral beauty; those qualities of the
mind which good men love and approve.
PULE, v. i. [Fr. piauler.] 1. To cry like a chicken. 2.
To whine; to cry as a complaining child; to whimper.
POLIE, n. A plant. Ainsworth.

+ PULI-COSE, a. [L. pulicosus.] Abounding with fleas. † PO'LI-COUS, Dict.

POLING, ppr. Crying like a chicken; whining.
PULING, n. A cry, as of a chicken; a whining.
PUL'ING-LY, adv. With whining or complaint.
PULI-OL, n. A plant. Ainsworth.

PULK'HA, n. A Laplander's traveling sled or sleigh. PULL, v. t. [Sax. pullian.] 1. To draw; to draw towards one, or to make an effort to draw. Pull differs from draw; we use draw when motion follows the effort, and pull is used in the same sense; but we may also pull forever without drawing or moving the thing. This distinction may not be universal. Pull is opposed to push. 2. To pluck; to gather by drawing or forcing off or out. 3. To tear; to rend; but in this sense followed by some qualifying word or phrase.

To pull down. 1. To demolish or to take in pieces by separating the parts. 2. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy. 3. To bring down; to degrade; to humble.-To pull off, to separate by pulling; to pluck; also, to take off without force.-To pull out, to draw out; to extract.-To pull up, to pluck up; to tear up by the roots; hence, to extirpate; to eradicate; to destroy.

PULL, n. 1. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move by drawing towards one. 2. A contest; a struggle. 3. Pluck; violence suffered.

PULL BACK, a. That which keeps back, or restrains from proceeding.

PULLED, pp. Drawn towards one; plucked.

† PULLEN, n. [Fr. poule ; L. pullus.] Poultry. Bailey. PULLER, n. One that pulls. Shak.

PULLET, n. [Fr. poulet; It. pollo; L. pullus.] A young hen or female of the gallinaceous kind of fowls. PULLEY, n. ; plu. PULLEYS. [Fr. poulie; Sp. polla; L. polus.] A small wheel turning on a pin in a block, with a furrow or groove in which runs the rope that turns it. PUL/LI-CAT, a. A kind of silk handkerchief. PULLING, ppr. Drawing; making an effort to draw; plucking.

PUL/LU-LATE, r. i. [L. pullulo.] To germinate; to oud. PUL-LU-LATION, n. A germinating or budding; the first shooting of a bud. More.

PULIMO-NA-RY, a. [L. pulmonarius.] Pertaining to the Jungs; affecting the lungs.

PUL MO-NA-RY, n. [L. pulmonaria.] A plant, lungwort. PUL-MONIC, a. [Fr. pulinonique.] Pertaining to the lungs ; affecting the lungs.

PUL-MONIE, n. 1. A medicine for diseases of the lungs. 2. One affected by a disease of the lungs. Arbuthnot. PULP, n. [Fr. pulpe; L. pulpa.] 1. A soft mass. 2. The soft substance within a bone; marrow. 3. The soft, succulent part of fruit. 4. The aril or exterior covering of a coffee-berry.

PULP, r. t. To deprive of the pulp or integument, as the coffee-berry.

PUL PIT, n. [L. pulpitum; It., Sp. pulpito; Fr. pupitre.] 1. An elevated place or inclosed stage in a church, in which the preacher stands. It is called, also, a desk.-2. In the Roman theatre, the pulpitum was the place where the players performed their parts, lower than the scena, and higher than the orchestra. 3. A movable desk, from which disputants pronounced their dissertations, and authors recited their works.

PUL PIT-EL/O-QUENCE, or PUL/PIT-OR'A-TO-RY, n. Eloquence or oratory in delivering sermons.

PUL-PIT I-CAL-LY, in Chesterfield, is not an authorized word.

PUL/PIT-OR'A-TOR, n. An eloquent preacher. PULPOUS, a. Consisting of pulp or resembling it; soft like pap. Philips.

PUI POUS-NESS, n. Softness; the quality of being pulp

ous.

PULP/Y, a. Like pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent. Ray
PULSATE, v. i. [L. pulsatus.] To beat or throb.
PULS/A-TILE, a. [L. pulsatilis.] That is or may be struck
or beaten; played by beating. Mus. Dict.

PUL-SA TIÓN, n. [L. pulsatio.] 1. The beating or throb-
bing of the heart or of an artery, in the process of carrying
on the circulation of the blood.-2. In law, any touching
of another's body willfully or in anger.
PULSA-TIVE, a. Beating; throbbing. Encyc.
PUL-SA TOR, n. A beater; a striker. Dict.

PULS A-TO-RY, a. Beating; throbbing, as the heart. PULSE, (puls) n. [L. pulsus; Fr. pouls.] 1. In animals, the beating or throbbing of the heart and arteries; me particularly, the sudden dilatation of an artery, caused by the projectile force of the blood, which is perceptible to the touch. 2. The stroke with which a medium is af fected by the motion of light, sound, &c., osculation; vibration. To feel one's pulse, metaphorically, to sound one's opinion; to try or to know one's mind. PULSE, v. i. To beat, as the arteries. [Little used.] Rey. PULSE, v. t. [L. pulso.] To drive, as the pulse. L.. PULSE, n. [qu. L. pulsus.] Leguminous plants or their seeds; as beans, peas, &c. Dryden.

PUL-SIFIE, a. [pulse, and L. facio.] Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation. Smith.

PULSION, n. [from L. pulsus.] The act of driving fo ward; in opposition to suction or traction. [L. u.] Mart. PUL-TACEOUS, a. [from Gr. noλros; L. puls. Macer ated; softened; nearly fluid. Beddoes.

PULTISE, n. [L. pultis.] A poultice. Burton. PULVER-A-BLE, a. [L. pulvis.] That may be reduced to fine powder; capable of being pulverized.

PULVER-ATE, v. t. To beat or reduce to powder or dust. PULVER-IN,

PUL/VER-INE, n. Ashes of barilla

PUL-VER-I-ZATION, n. [from pulverize.] The act of reducing to dust or powder."

PUL/VER-IZE, v. t. [It. polverizzare; Fr. pulveriser.] To reduce to fine powder, as by beating, grinding, &c. PULVER-IZED, pp. Reduced to fine powder. PULVER-IZ-ING, ppr. Reducing to fine powder. PULVER-OUS, a. Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

PUL-VER U-LENCE, n. Dustiness; abundance of dust of powder.

PUL-VERU-LENT, a. 1. Dusty; consisting of fine powder; powdery. 2. Addicted to lying and rolling in ure dust, as fowls.

PUL VIL, n. A sweet-scented powder. [L. u.] Gay. PUL/VIL, v. t. To sprinkle with a perfumed powder. POMA, n. A rapacious quadruped of America.

PUMICE, n. [L. pumex ; D. puimsteen.] A substance frequently ejected from volcanoes, of various colors, gray white, reddish-brown or black; hard, rough and porous specifically lighter than water, and resembling the stag produced in an iron furnace.

* PUMICE-STONE, n. The same as pumice. PU-MI"CEOUS, a. Pertaining to pumice; consisting of pumice or resembling it.

PUMMEL. See РOMMEL.

PUMP, n. [Fr. pompe; D. pomp ; Dan. pompe.] 1. A hydraulic engine for raising water. 2. A shoe with a thin sole. Swift.

PUMP, v. i. To work a pump; to raise water with a pump. PUMP, v. t. 1. To raise with a pump. 2. To draw out by artful interrogatories. 3. To examine by artful questions for the purpose of drawing out secrets. PUMP-BOLTS, n. Two pieces of iron, one used to fasten the pump-spear to the brake, the other as a fulcrum for the brake to work upon.

PUMP-BRAKE, n. The arm or handle of a pump. PUMP-DALE, n. A long wooden tube, used to convey the water from a chain-pump across the ship and through the side.

PUMPER, n. The person or the instrument that pumps. PUMP GEAR, n. The materials for fitting and repairing pumps.

PUMP-HOOD, n. A semi-cylindrical frame of wood, cov ering the upper wheel of a chain-pump.

PUMPION, n. [D. pompoen; Sw. pomp.] A plant and its fruit, of the genus cucurbita.

PUMP KIN, n. A pompion. [This is the common orthogra phy of the word in the United States.]

PUMP-SPEAR, n. The bar to which the upper box of a pum is fastened, and which is attached to the brake of handle. Mar. Dict.

PUN, n. [qu. W. pun.] An expression in which a word has at once different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an old of ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation, a le species of wit.

PUN, v. i. To quibble; to use the same word at once in different senses, Dryden.

PUN, v. t. To persuade by a pun. Addison.

PUR BLIND, a. [said to be from pore and blind.] Nearsighted or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely. Shak. PUR BLIND-NESS, a. Shortness of sight; near-sightedness; dimness of vision.

PURCHAS-A-BLE, a. [from purchase.] That may be bought, purchased or obtained for a consideration. PURCHASE, v. t. [Fr. pourchasser.] 1. In its primary and legal sense, to gain, obtain or acquire by any means, except by descent or hereditary right.-2. În 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. 3. To obtain by an expense of labor, danger or other sacrifice. 4. To expiate or recompense by a fine or forfeit. 5. To sue out or procure, as a writ. PURCHASE, v. i. In seamen's language, to draw in. PURCHASE, n. [Norm., Fr. pourchas, or purchas.] 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.-2. In law, the suing out and obtaining a writ.-3. In common usage, the acquisition of the title or property of any thing by rendering an equivalent in money. 4. That which is purchased; any thing of which the property is obtained by giving an equivalent price in money. 5. That which is obtained by labor, danger, art, &c. 6. Formerly, robbery, and the thing stolen. 7. Ány mechanical power or force applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies. PURCHASED, pp. 1. Obtained or acquired by one's own act or agreement. 2. Obtained by paying an equivalent in money. 3. Obtained by labor, danger, art, &c. PURCHASE-MON-EY, n. The money paid for any thing bought. Berkeley.

PURCHAS-ER, n. 1. In law, one who acquires or obtains by conquest or by deed or gift, or in any manner other than by descent or inheritance. 2. One who obtains or acquires the property of any thing by paying an equivalent in money.

PURCHAS-ING, ppr. Buying; obtaining by one's own act or for a price.

PURE, a. [L. purus; It., Sp. puro; Fr. pur.] 1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture. 2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy. 3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated. 4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign. 5. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent. 6. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases. 7. Disinterested. 8. Chaste. 3. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Tit. i. 10. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra vi. 11. Free from any thing improper. 12. Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else.

PURE, v. t. To purify; to cleanse. Chaucer. PURELY, adv. 1. In a pure manner; with an entire separation of heterogeneous or foul matter. Is. i. 2. Without any mixture of improper or vicious words or phrases. 3. Innocently; without guilt. 4. Merely; absolutely; without connection with any thing else; completely; totally. PURE NESS, . 1. Clearness; an unmixed state; separation or freedom from any heterogeneous or foreign matter. 2. Freedom from moral turpitude or guilt. 3. Simplicity; freedom from mixture or composition. 4. Freedom from vicious or improper words, phrases or modes of speech. PURE VIL LEN-AGE, in the feudal law, is a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blackstone.

t PURIFILE, n. [Fr. pourfilée.] A sort of ancient trimming for women's gowns, made of tinsel and thread, called also bobbin work.

PUR FLE, v. l. [Fr. pour filer; It. profilare.] To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider. Milton. PURIFLE, n. 1. A border of embroidered work.-2. In PUR FLEW, heraldry, ermins, peans or furs which compose a bordure.

PURGIA-MENT, n. [L. purgamen.] A cathartic. Bacon. PUR-GATION, n. [Fr.; L. purgatio.] 1. The act or operation of cleansing or purifying by separating and carrying off impurities or whatever is superfluous.-2. In law, the act of cleansing from a crime, accusation or suspicion of guilt.

PURG A-TIVE, a. [It. purgativo; Fr. purgatif.] Having the power of cleansing; usually, having the power of evacuating the bowels; cathartic.

PURG/A-TIVE, R. A medicine that evacuates the bowels; a cathartic.

PURG-A-TORI-AL, }

PURG-A-TŌ'RI-AN,

a. Pertaining to purgatory. Mede.

PURGIA-TO-RY, a. [L. purgatorius.] Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.

PURG/A-TO-RY, n. [Fr. purgatoire.] Among Catholics, a supposed place or tate after death, in which the souls of

persons are purified, or in which they expiate such of fenses committed in this life, as do not merit eternal damnation.

PURGE, (purj) v. t. [L. purgo; Pr. purger; Sp. purgar It. purgare.] 1. To cleanse or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign or superfluous. 2. To clear from guilt or moral defile. ment. 3. To clear from accusation or the charge of a crime, as in ordeal. 4. To remove what is offensive, to sweep away impurities. 5. To clarify; to defecate; as liquors.

PURGE, v. i. 1. To become pure by clarification. 2. To have frequent or preternatural evacuations by stook PURGE, n. A medicine that evacuates the body by stool, a cathartic. Arbuthnot.

PURGED, pp. Purified; cleansed; evacuated.

PURG ER, n. 1. A person or thing that purges or cleanses. 2. A cathartic.

PURGING, ppr. Cleansing; purifying; carrying off imperities or superfluous matter.

PURGING, R. A diarrhea or dysentery; preternatural evacuation by stool; looseness of bowels.

PU-RI-FI-CATION, n. [Fr.; L. purificatio.] 1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and readving from any thing that which is heterogeneous or for eign to it.-2. In religion, the act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. 3. A cleausing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites and inclinations. PU-RIFI-CA-TIVE, a. Having power to purify, tendPU-RIFI-CA-TO-RÝ, ing to cleanse.

PURI-FI-ER, n. That which purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

PURI-FORM, a. [L. pus, puris and form.] Lake pas; in the form of pus. Med. Repos.

PURI FY, v. t. [Fr. purifier; L. purifice.] 1. To make pure or clear; to free from extraneous admixture. 2. To free from pollution ceremonially; to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services. 3. To free from guilt or the defilement of sin. 4. To clear from im proprieties or barbarisms.

PURI-FY, v. i. To grow or become pure or clear. Burnet. PURI-FY-ING, ppr. Removing foreign or heterogeneous

matter; cleansing from pollution; fining; making clear. PURI-FY-ING, n. The act or operation of making pure, or of cleansing from extraneous matter or from pollution. PURIM, n. Among the Jews, the feast of lots, instituted to commemorate their deliverance from the machinations of Haman. Esth. ix.

PO'RIST, n. [Fr. puriste.] One excessively nice in the use of words. Johnson.

PURI-TAN, n. [from pure.] A Dissenter from the church of England.

PO'RI-TAN, a. Pertaining to the Puritans, or Dissenters from the church of England. Sanderson.

PU-RI-TANIE, a. Pertaining to the Puritans or their PU-RI-TAN I-CAL, doctrines and practice; exact; rigid.

PU-RI-TANI-CAL-LY, adv. After the manner of the Fu

ritans.

PURI-TAN-ISM, n. The notions or practice of Puritans. PURI-TAN-IZE, v. i. To deliver the notions of Puritans. PO'RI-TY, n. [Fr. purité; L. puritas.] Freedom from foreign admixture or heterogeneous matter. 2. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. 3. Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence. 4. Chastity; freedom from contamination by illicit sexual connection. 5. Freedom from any sinister or improper views. 6. Freedom from foreign idioms, from barbarous or improper words or phrases.

PURL, n. (supposed to be contracted from parfe. Qu.] 1 An embroidered and puckered border. 2. A kind of edg ing for bone-lace.

PURL, n. A species of malt liquor; ale or beer medicated with wormwood or aromatic herbs. Johnson. PURL, n. Two rounds in knitting.

PURL, v. i. [Sw. porla; W. frcular.] 1. To murmur, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions which occasion a continued series of broken sounds. 2 To flow or run with a murmuring sound.

PURL, v. t. To decorate with fringe or embroidery. PURL, n. A gentle, continued murmur of a small stream of rippling water.

PUR LIEU, (purlu) n. [Fr. pur, pure, and lieu, place.] A border; a limit; a certain limited extent or district. PUR LIN, n. In architecture, a piece of timber extending from end to end of a building or roof.

PURLING, ppr. Murmuring or gurgling, as a brook PURLING, n. The continued gentle murmur of a small

stream.

PUR-LOIN', v. t. [Fr. pour and loin.] 1. Literally, to take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft. 2. To take by plagiarism; to steal from books or manuscripts.