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A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

Purulent matter. [Obs.] Barrough.

To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.…

ed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.

To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together. Certain of the Jews banded together. Acts xxiii. 12.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

al, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.

g in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] Swift.

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

argo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo. Kent. Part.

traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

here assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.