Word Meanings - PURPLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat purple. Boyle.

SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
BOYLE'S LAW
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PURPLEHEART
A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera . Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
PURPLE
Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia as, the banded purple . See Illust. under Ursula. (more info) porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. 1. A color formed
PURPLEWOOD
See PURPLEHEART
EMPURPLE
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
BEPURPLE
To tinge or dye with a purple color.
IMPURPLE
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.