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To decorate with fringe or embroidery. "Nature's cradle more enchased and purled." B. Jonson.

emit to the former owners their rights. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton.

In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.

The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing.

for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden.

One who purloins. Swift.

Having no spurs.

A tern. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.

A spur, or spurlike prominence.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.

A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.

A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris [Colloq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [Colloq.]

To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin. Shak.

ed as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purlpe laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; - - called also sloke, or sloakan. Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga o…

gnation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.