adj. 1. not limited in use or function.
Syn. -- general-purpose. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ proper name ] 1. (Hinduism) wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: goddess of plenty.
Syn. -- Parvati, Anapurna [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 a mountain in Nepal, 26, 504 feet high.
Syn. -- Anapurna [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain. ] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Syn. -- gear, paraphernalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance. ] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Larkspur. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tinge or dye with a purple color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spurt on or over; to asperse. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (Cratægus Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compurgatio, fr. compurgare to purify wholly; com- + purgare to make pure. See Purge, v. t. ] 1. (Law) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion of incontinency and needed no compurgation. Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. [ 1913 Webster ]

All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. “Their compurgatorial oath.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. conspurcatus, p. p. of conspurcare. ] To pollute; to defile. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conspurcare, -spuratum, to defile. ] The act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. couper to cut. ] (Fort.) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A counter or opposing purpose; a contrary aim; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory. Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket [ 1913 Webster ]

To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Depurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. depuratus, p. p. of depurare to purify; L. de- + purare to purify, purus clean, pure. Cf. Depure. ] Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depurated p. pr. & vb. n. Depurating ] To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse. [ 1913 Webster ]

To depurate the mass of blood. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dépuration. ] The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dépuratif. ] (Med.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- n. A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, cleanses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dépuratoire. ] Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. dépurer. See Depurate. ] To depurate; to purify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Depuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. To disburse. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + purvey: cf. OF. desporveoir, F. dépourvoir. ] To disfurnish; to strip. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of provisions; &unr_;ack of food. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Empurpled p. pr. & vb. n. Empurpling ] [ Pref. em- + purple. Cf. Impurple. ] To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. “The deep empurpled ran.” Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. e out, quite + purare to purify, purus pure. ] Purification. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Fine Arts) A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expurgated p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating ] [ L. expurgatus, p. p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge. ] To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. expurgatio justification, excuse: cf. F. expurgation. ] The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who expurgates or purifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expurgatory. [ Obs. ] “Expurgatorious indexes.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. expurgatoire. ] Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. “Expurgatory animadversions.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. espurgier. See Expurgate. ] To purge away. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rides before; a harbinger. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. "i`ppos horse + o"y`ron urine: cf. F. hippurique. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; decked with a horse's tail; "i`ppos horse + &unr_; tail: cf. F. hippurite.] (Paleon.) 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. [1913 Webster]

{ or, more fully, or }. (Law) 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 title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right the contract is a sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Hot + spur. ] A rash, hot-headed man. Holinshed.