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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

 

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