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To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.

A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

To divide into quaternions, files, or companies. Milton.

A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). Fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war. Shak.

To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

Like a rat's tale in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.

To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. [Obs.] "The fifth that did it ray." Spenser.

ons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the bishop. Chaucer. We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. 2 Cor. v. 20.

behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.

sinews. Horror . . . all his joints relaxed. Milton. Nor served it to relax their serried files. Milton.

n. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files. Granville.

or a second time. Bill of review (Equity), a bill, in the nature of proceedings in error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been duly signed and enrolled. Wharton. -- Commission of review (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sen…

A curved file used in carving wool and marble.

Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.

A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. And there were windows in three rows. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills. -- Row of points (Geom…

A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.

That which satisfies or gratifiles; atonement. Die he, or justice must; unless or him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death. Milton.

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly. Arbuthnot.

ing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision. The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work. Moxon. These nails with scratches deform my breast. Prior. God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this. Shak.