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Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

letive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. [Low] The devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser. Shak. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope.

A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [Obs.]

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

The Coryphæna hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphænoid.

A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.

To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. [R.]

termining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.

To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.

mblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity. -- Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.

An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.

Purification.

e office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain. Chatham.

To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay. [Obs.] Locke.

the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

he constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.