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The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.

ting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

In a purulent manner.

sicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

A teal.

Querulous. [R.]

A little raceme.

A radicle.

Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

A small ramus, or branch.

To recoil. [Obs.] Spenser.

Recoil. [Obs.]

A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand. De Quincey.

Rule. [Obs.]

matter. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe.

One who ridicules.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

Full of, or abounding in, dew. [R.]

A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.

A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.