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A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.

Having the power to produce a purple color; as, the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. See Visual purple, under Visual.

To murmur as a cat. See Pur.

The dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]

A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.

See Puddock, and Parrock.

ney carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak.

Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier. Purser's name (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]

The office of purser. Totten.

A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.

State of being pursy.

Pursy. [Obs.] Holland.

Pursiness. [Obs. & R.]

Same as Purslane.

leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. -- Sea purslane, a seashore plant (Arena…

Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted. Sherwood.

The act of pursuit. [R.]