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      "phonetic": [
        "pjʊr"
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          "lang": "Audio (US)",
          "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/pure.mp3"
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    "meansorg": {
      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).",
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      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "Adjective",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Free of foreign material or pollutants."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Mere; that and that only.\nThat idea is pure madness!"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant."
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              "mean": "(Bermuda, slang) A lot of."
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          "name": "Adverb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(Liverpudlian, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.\nYou’re pure busy."
            }
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          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately\nTiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine."
            }
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "One who, or that which, is pure.\n1845, The Lancet, page 187:\n... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.\nc. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:\nTook a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking,   \n1998,  Christopher Leigh Connery,  The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical  analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the \"pures\"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the \"pures\" possibly did not even exist"
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          "name": "Noun_2",
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              "mean": "Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)\n1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:\n   Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.\n2001, Wendy Lawton, The Tinker's Daughter, ch. 8:\nMary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road.  \n\"What is that, Mary?\" Jake asked.\n\"'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure.\"\n\"Pure? What is pure?\"\n\"Pure is another word for dung,\" Mary answered.\n2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, p. 28:\n   surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.)"
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              "mean": "pure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\npure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911"
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        "(free of flaws): see Thesaurus:pure",
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