Found 1 hit - Term: purple sandpiper, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
purple \pur"ple\, a.
1. exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much
esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or
red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
1913 webster
2. imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been
an emblem of imperial authority.
1913 webster
hide in the dust thy purple pride. --shelley.
1913 webster
3. blood-red; bloody.
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may such purple tears be alway shed. --shak.
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i view a field of blood,
and tiber rolling with a purple blood. --dryden.
1913 webster
purple bird zool., the european purple gallinule. see
under gallinule.
purple copper ore. min. see bornite.
purple grackle zool., the crow blackbird. see under
crow.
purple martin. see under martin.
purple sandpiper. see under sandpiper.
purple shell. see ianthina.
1913 webster
see also:
purple bird gallinule purple copper ore bornite purple grackle crow
purple martin martin purple sandpiper sandpiper purple shell
ianthina
Results 1 - 5 of 5 found about purple sandpiper: Purple
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Purple, definition of term: Purple
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Sandpiper, definition of term: Sandpiper
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Purple Martin, definition of term: Purple Martin
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Purple Heart, definition of term: Purple Heart
purple+heart_pag1.html Purple Finch
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Purple Finch, definition of term: Purple Finch
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