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Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion. The pure fetters on his shins great. Chaucer. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. I. Watts.

Purified; refined. [Obs.] "Bread of pured wheat." "Pured gold." Chaucer.

A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]

Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

Of a purple color; purple.

A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.

Pyrography; also, a design or picture made by pyrography.

ct of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.

A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.

See Coiffure.

y with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. Dryden.

One who reassures.

The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] Shak.