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Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

Of a bright red or purple color. [R.]

Somewhat purple. Boyle.

Purple. [Obs.] Chaucer.

sated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison.

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.

nous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.

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.

crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.

Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.

d from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.

The visual purple. See under Visual.

ralian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus Morelia. -- Rock snipe (Zoöl.), the purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima); -- called also rock bird, rock plover, winter snipe. -- Rock soap (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. -- Rock sparrow. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of sever…

A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species…

An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.

xa regia), lately discovered also in Florida. -- Royal pheasant. See Curassow. -- Royal purple, an intense violet color, verging toward blue. -- Royal tern (Zoöl.), a large, crested American tern (Sterna maxima). -- Royal tiger. (Zoöl.) See Tiger. -- Royal touch, the touching of a diseased person by the hand of a…

rom California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.