the freedom of anything from foreign admixture.

Purity of Style. See Oratory, p. 411, &c.

PURRLEU, signifies all that ground near any forest, which being made forest by King Henry II. Richard I. and King John, was afterwards by perambulations and grants of Henry III., fevered again from the same, and made purrleeu; that is to say, pure and free from the laws of the forest.—The word is derived from the French pur "pure," and lieu "place."

PURRINS, in building, those pieces of timber that lie across the rafters on the inside, to keep them from sinking in the middle of their length.

By the act of parliament for rebuilding London, it is provided, that all purlins from 15 feet 6 inches to 18 feet 6 inches long, be in their square 9 inches and 8 inches; and all in length from 18 feet 6 inches to 21 feet 6 inches, be in their square 12 inches and 9 inches.