Definition of purple

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Purple (a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.

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Dash :: Dash (n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple..
Impurpled :: Impurpled (imp. & p. p.) of Impurpl.
Optogram :: Optogram (n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.
Poly-mountain :: Poly-mountain (n.) The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe..
Morning-glory :: Morning-glory (n.) A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal..
Purple :: Purple (n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
Purpura :: Purpura (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye..
Tyrian :: Tyrian (a.) Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
Pitta :: Pitta (n.) Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes..
Amaranth :: Amaranth (n.) A color inclining to purple.
Impurple :: Impurple (v. t.) To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood..
Sea Sandpiper :: Sea sandpiper () The purple sandpiper.
Rook :: Rook (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species..
Loosestrife :: Loosestrife (n.) Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers..
Purple :: Purple (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.
Standgale :: Standergrass (n.) A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long..
Quartz :: Quartz (n.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque..
Groundnut :: Groundnut (n.) A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste..
Purples :: Purples (pl. ) of Purpl.
Laticlave :: Laticlave (n.) A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office..
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