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plural purs
Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”). quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present purs, present participle purring, simple past and past participle purred
Dated form of purr quotations examples
And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River
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