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Poorly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who pours.

See Purlieu.

A consultation preliminary to a treaty.

A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.

See Purpresture.

See Pursuivant.

See Portray.

See Purveyance.

A practitioner. [Obs.]

A hard rider. [Obs.]

A keeper of a brothel; a procurer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called cyanuric acid. See Cyanuric.

Rasor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudina…

Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. [Obs.] Drayton.

The lowest grade of flour in milling. It is dark and of little expansive power, is secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.