Browning, Ring and Book, I

211. And on his brows a purfled purple hood. Swinburne , St. Dorothy. (0) To edge with fur. (c) To line with fur: as, a mantling purpled and bordered vair. (d) In her ., to decorate with gold mountings, such as the studs or bo es in armor, as in the phrase "a leg in armor proper, purfled or." (e) In arch ., to decorate richly, as with sculpture. Purging medicines. a fine spirit. have their purgative virtue in Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 20. They had not yet analysed these purgative waters, and consequently "Epsom salts" were unknown, so that people, did they wish for them, must either go to Epsom or buy the water in London.