"pur" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "purs",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "low murmuring sound as of a cat",
          "word": "purr"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis, page 294:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”)."
      ],
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          "purr",
          "purr#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pur"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "purs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "purring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "purred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "purred",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "purr"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River\nAnd there the wild-cat purs amid her brood."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor, page 182:",
          "text": "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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dated form of purr"
      ],
      "id": "en-pur-en-verb-9vg0ktWQ",
      "links": [
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          "purr",
          "purr#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "life estate pur autre vie"
        },
        {
          "word": "pur sang"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pur"
}

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis, page 294:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”)."
      ],
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          "purr",
          "purr#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pur"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "purs",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "purring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "purred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "purred",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "life estate pur autre vie"
    },
    {
      "word": "pur sang"
    }
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    {
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          "word": "purr"
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        {
          "text": "a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River\nAnd there the wild-cat purs amid her brood."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor, page 182:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dated form of purr"
      ],
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          "purr",
          "purr#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pur"
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