Word Meanings - IMPURPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.
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- BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - FIELD
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - SMILAX
A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. A delicate trailing plant much used for decoration. It is - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - CELESTIAL
1. Belonging to the aƫrial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - SMILER
One who smiles. Tennyson. - REDDISH
Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - SMILACIN
See PARRILIN - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - BLOODINESS
1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - FLEECER
One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne. - CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - SUPERCELESTIAL
1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field. - EMPURPLE
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from