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Purfled
- - Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.
Purflew
- - A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.
Purgery
- - The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
Purging
- verb -
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
- make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
- oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
- rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
Purines
- noun - a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances
- any of several bases that are derivatives of purine
Purisms
- noun - scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language); "linguistic purisms"
Purists
- noun - someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Puritan
- noun - a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
- a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
Purlieu
- noun - an outer adjacent area of any place
Purline
- - In roof construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals
- In roof construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.