pur
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pur
. Add: [v.
N. E. D. purre].
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "pur." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 682.
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pur
a bittern(?) :-- Hæferblǽte vel pur bicoca, Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 42. Ráradumbla, ðæt is pur onocrotalus, 62, 21. [Purre two sea-birds, the tern and the black-headed gull; pirre-, pyr-maw a sea-bird, E. D. S. Publ. Antrim and Down Glossary.]