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To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

To disburse. [Obs.] Shak.

To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.

Want of provisions; [Obs.] Spenser.

To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.

Purification.

A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton.

One who expurgates or purifies.

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.

Expurgatory. [Obs.] "Expurgatorious indexes." Milton.

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.

To purge away. [Obs.] Milton.

One who rides before; a harbinger. [Obs.] Shak.

A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll.

A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…