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A bridle path. [R.]

A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

Excessive purgation. Wiseman.

A suppurative.

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

The act or process of suppurating.

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration. Suppurative fever (Med.), pyæmia.

Trappings for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not pure; impure. -- Un*pure"ly, adv. -- Un*pure"ness, n.

Robbed of a purse, or of money. [R.] Pollock.

A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.

See under Purslane.

pressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

The rhinoceros. [Obs.] Purchas.

k of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.…