pur
see also: PUR
Noun

pur (plural purs)

  1. Dated form of purr#English|purr (low murmuring sound as of a cat)
    • 1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
      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.
Verb

pur (purs, present participle purring; past and past participle purred)

  1. Dated form of purr#English|purr
    • And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
    • 1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
      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.

PUR
Noun

pur

  1. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyurethane



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