pur meaning (dated): definition, quotations

pur

noun

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.1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis, page 294:

verb

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.1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor, page 182:

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