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or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion. The pure fetters on his shins great. Chaucer. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. I. Watts.

Purified; refined. [Obs.] "Bread of pured wheat." "Pured gold." Chaucer.

A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm.

To depurate; to purify. [Obs.] He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God. Sir T. More.

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

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.

Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

In an impure manner.

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton.

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.

Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the "real Simon Pure."

Trappings for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not pure; impure. -- Un*pure"ly, adv. -- Un*pure"ness, n.

old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.