PUR 



PUR 



evince the regularity and legitimacy of this colour in armory, 

 to be no other than filver tarnifhed. 



Spelman, however, in his Afpilogia, allows purple the pre- 

 ference before all other colours, as having been an enlign 

 of royalty for many ages ; yet even he allows it to have 

 been excluded, by the ancient heralds, as only an imperfeft 

 colour. 



It is reprefented in engraving, by diagonal lines drawn 

 from the finifter chief to the dexter bafe point. In the coats 

 of noblemen it is called amethyji ; and in thofe of princes, 

 Mercury. 



PUliPURINA, a name ufed by Caneparius, and fome 

 other authors, for the aurum mol'aicum, or aurum mulivum 

 of the fliops, the prefent preparation of which differs 

 from that of that author only in the proportions of the 

 ingredients. 



PURPURISSUS, in the Jncietit IVrhers, both Greek 

 and Roman, the name of a compound colour or fucus of a 

 fine purplifh red, ufed to paint women's cheeks. 



It feems by the compofition to have been fomewhat like 

 our rofe pink, as it is called by the colourmen. It was 

 made of the creta argentaria, or line white kind of chalk, 

 diilolved in a llrong purple tindture of fome of the roots 

 of wood which dyed red ; and when the coarfer part 

 was fubfided to the bottom of the veU'el, tlie hquor, 

 while yet thick, was poured off into another veffel ; and 

 what fubfided from this, which was as fine as flour, was 

 of a beautiful pale purple, and was the purpuriflus faved 

 for ufe. 



PURREL, anno 35 Eliz. cap. 10. a lift ordained to be 

 made at the ends of kerfeys,to prevent deceit in diminifliing 

 their length. 



PURRONGUR, in Geography, a town of Hindooflan, 

 in the circar of Bilfa ; 20 miles S.E. of Bilfa. 



PURROWNAH, a town of Hindooflan, in Oude ; 28 

 miles E. of Gooracpour. N. lat. 26" 57'. E. long. 84° 17'. 



PURRUAH, a* f mall circar of Bengal, about 16 miles 

 in circumference ; N. of Mauldah. — Alfo, a town of Ben- 

 gal, and chief town of the faid circar ; 26 miles E.S.E. of 

 Burdwan. N. lat. 23° 4'. E. long. 88° 25'. 



PURSAH, a town of Hindooflan, in Bahar ; i8 miles 

 N.W. of Chuprali. 



PURSAUMMAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 

 35 miles E. of Durbungah. 



PURSE, a manner of accounting ; or, as fome call it, 

 a fpecies of money of account, much ufed in the Levant, 

 particularly at Conftantinople, where it is 500 afpers ; three 

 afpers being equal to a para, and forty paras equal to a piaflre, 

 called by the Turks grouch, and by the Enghfh dollar. By 

 the regulations of 1 780, the purfc of 500 piattres was to weigh 

 28 1 2^ Turkifh drams. A fingle piattre weighed 5^ drams, 

 or 277 Enghfh grains ; and the other pieces in proportion. 

 Their llandard of fmenefs was reduced at the fame time to 

 50 carats (or hundredth parts) of fine filver, and 50 of 

 alloy : which gave the value of the piattre at l,()\d. ftcrling, 

 and the other filver coins in proportion. But finca that 

 period tlie Turkifh coins have undergone a deterioration, fo 

 that a piaftre of the lateft coinage being weighed and af- 

 fayed by the king's afTay matter of the Mint, appeared to 

 be in weight 8 dwt. 6 gr. ; in finenefs, 5 oz. 6 dwt. worfe 

 than the Englifh ftandard. This gives its finenefs 47 carats 

 a grains Turkifh, and its value, in fterling, l^id. Kelly's 

 Un. Cambitt. 



This money of account is called purfe, becaufe all the 

 jrrand fignior's treafure in the feraglio is kept in leather 

 bags of this value. 



In this, however, there is fome difference ; for the purfe 



in Egypt is 25,000 medinis, or 75,000 afpers; and in other 

 parts of Turkey it is only 20,000. 



This method of accounting the Turks derive from the 

 Greeks, and they from the Romans ; the emperors of which 

 brought it to Conftantinople, as appears from a letter oi 

 Conttantine to Cecilian, bifhop of Carthage, quoted by 

 Eufebius and Nicephorus. See FoLLls. 



PuRSE-A'^e/, in Rural Economy, a net ufed for taking 

 both hares and rabbits at certain times ; and three or four 

 dozen of them are fufficient to lay over their holes : they 

 are to be fattened, by tying firings to flicks thrufl into the 

 earth, otherwife when the rabbits bolt out, they will run away 

 and get out of the nets ; but when the nets are fixed, and 

 all tilings are in order, there mufl be one or two perfons to 

 lie clofe, to fee what game comes home ; while, in the mean 

 time, you beat the bufhes, to force them homewards. But 

 another way to take rabbits with thefe nets is, at their 

 coming out of their parraces : and they Ihould be fecreted 

 in this manner. Firfl hunt them up and down, to force 

 them all in, then put in a ferret, with a bell about her neck, 

 whicli gives the rabbit notice of her coming, who, in en- 

 deavouring to avoid the ferret, runs into the net. 



PURSER, an officer aboard a man of war, appointed 

 by the lords of the admiralty, who receives her victuals 

 from the vidlualler ; and it to take care that it be in good 

 condition, and well laid up and flowed. He is alfo to fee 

 that they are carefully diftributed to the officers and crew, 

 according to the inftruftions which he has received from 

 the commiffioners of the navy for that purpofe. To him 

 alfo belongs the dittribution of flops, &c. 



He is alfo to keep a lift of the men and boys belonging 

 to the fhip, and to fet down, exaftly,the day of each man's 

 admittance into pay ; that the paymafter or treafurer of 

 the navy may iflue out his difburfements, and pay off the 

 men according to the mufter-book. 



PURSIVENESS, or PuRSINESs, among Farriers, thick- 

 nefs of wind, a name common to all thafe difeafes in horfes 

 which arife from obftruftions in the paffages of the lungs. 



Purfivenefs, fometimes alfo called broken wind, may pro- 

 ceed from an ulcer, or fome inward wafting of the lungs, 

 in which the fmall veflels are worn or abraded by the fharp- 

 nefs or acrimony of the common difcharges. 



The like diforder may alfo arife from a ftagnation, hin- 

 dering the air from penetrating fo as to lift up the lungs 

 in the aft of refpiration ; or from fome tough and muci- 

 laginous matter feparated in the branches of the wind-pipe. 



The ufual occafions are cold, furfeits, and other difeafes 

 not thoroughly carried off. Purfive difordersmay alfo arife 

 from unwholefome food, bad air, and hard riding when a 

 horfe is full. The figns are commonly a heaving and beat- 

 ing of the flanks ; a wheezing and rattling. Sometime* 

 the kernels about the throat will fwell, and there will be a 

 glandulous running at the nofe, which is the utmoft ftage 

 of the difeafe, and ufually reputed defperate. 



PURSLANE, in Botany. See Portulaca. 



Purslane, Horfi. See Trianthema. 



Purslane, Sea. See Atriplex. 



PtiRSLANE Tree. See Portulacaria. 



Purslane, Water. See Peplis. 



PURSOTTUMPOUR, in Geography, a town of Hin- 

 dooftan, in Bahar ; 35 miles W.S.W. of Arrah. 



PURSOYAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; 25 

 miles W.S.W. of Gavah. 



PURSUIVANT.' See Pouusuivant. 



PURSURjin Geography, a town of Hindooflan, in Oude ; 

 1 3 miles N. of Mahomdy. 



PURVER, Anthony, in Bhgraphy, was born at Up- 

 1 1 Hurftorn, 



