Crossword-Solution: PURL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purl | v. t. | To decorate with fringe or embroidery. |
| Purl | n. | An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. |
| Purl | n. | An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance. |
| Purl | v. i. | To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. |
| Purl | v. & n. | To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle. |
| Purl | n. | A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. |
| Purl | n. | A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook. |
| Purl | n. | Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. |
| Purl | n. | A tern. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PURL | anagram | PLUR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PURL (5)
From the trees came the sound of steady dripping upon the drifted leaves under them, and from the direction of the church she could hear another noise—peculiar, and not intermittent like the rest, the purl of water falling into a pool.
Stephen walked back to the vicarage through the meadows, as he had come, surrounded by the soft musical purl of the water through little weirs, the modest light of the moon, the freshening smell of the dews out-spread around.
Gaslights glared from butchers’ stalls, illuminating the lumps of flesh to splotches of orange and vermilion, like the wild colouring of Turner’s later pictures, whilst the purl and babble of tongues of every pitch and mood was to this human wild-wood what the ripple of a brook is to the natural forest.
But Penrod had the delectable bottle again, and tilting it above his lips, affected to let the cool liquid purl enrichingly into him, while with his right hand he stroked his middle facade ineffably.
And when he fearlessly handled the box of rats and hammered upon it with cool insouciance, he beheld--for the first time in his life--a purl of admiration eddying in Marjorie's lovely eye, a certain softening of that eye.
Quotes with PURL (3)
But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your rights and no vampire will hold it against you. Pass judgment on me, Gavner Purl, and let your hand rise or fall as destiny decides it must."-Larten Crepsley
And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish, the great moon that once was rose now high like a blazing milk flails its white reflection vertical and deep in the dark surgey mass wall river's grinding bed push. As in a sad dream, under the streetlamp, by pocky unpaved holes in dirt, the father James Cassidy comes home with lunchpail and lantern, limping, redfaced, and turns in for supper and sleep. Now a door s…
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty. More concerned with what is put than how it is put, she also understood that you only say anything at all when you say it well.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 87 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).