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Definition of pur

4 senses · 2 parts of speech

noun

(alt-of, dated)Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”).

“The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.”

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noun

(alt-of, dated)Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”).

“The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.”
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of polyurethane.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of person using radio.

verb

(alt-of, dated)Dated form of purr.

“a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.”
“It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur.”

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