1. to flow or ripple with a murmuring sound.
2. the sound made by rippling water.
3. to knit (yarn) with a purl stitch.
4. to edge or finish (a handkerchief, for example) with lace or embroidery.
5. to do knitting with a purl stitch.
6. to edge or finish with lace or embroidery.
7. inversion of a knit stitch; purl stitch.
8. A decorative edging of lace or embroidery.
9. gold or silver wire used in embroidery.

1. A particular stitch in knitting.
2. the edge of lace trimmed with loops
3. to decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
4. an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
5. a heavy or headlong fall, an upset
6. to upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong
7. formerly ale spiced with wormwood and sometimes warmed.
8. to flow with murmuring sound in swirls and eddies

1. an embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
2. an inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
3. A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
4. A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
5. malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
6. A tern.
7. to run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
8. to rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
9. to decorate with fringe or embroidery.

1. to flow with a rippling or murmuring sound, as a shallow stream over or among stones or other obstructions; ripple along in eddying and bubbling swirls.
2. to curl or swirl; move in rippling or eddying swirls.
3. to upset; overturn; capsize. [slang.] see the quotation under II., 2.
4. to whirl about; cause to rotate: as, the wind purls a snow-drift.
5. to upset; overturn; also, specifically, as a hunting term, to unseat or unhorse.
6. to wind, as thread, upon a reel or spindle.
7. to ornament with a decorative border of any sort; decorate with fringe or embroidery; purfle.
8. to invert, as a stitch in knitting; turn over and knit the other way; seam.
9. A middle english form of prowl.
10. A continued murmuring sound, as of a shallow stream of water running over small stones: as, the purl of a brook.
11. A murmuring brook or rippling stream of water.
12. A circle or curl made by the motion of water; a ripple; an eddy.
13. A border of embroidery or perhaps of lace, or gold lace or galloon.
14. A spiral of gold or silver wire, used in lace-work.
15. an inversion of the stitches in knitting, which gives to parts of the work an appearance different from the general surface, such as the ribbed appearance of those parts where great elasticity is required.
16. A plait or fold, as in an article of dress.
17. in lace-making, a kind of lace in common use in the sixteenth century, and often of great value.
18. A drink, of which beer is the principal ingredient, defined about 1815 as hot beer mixed with gin: same as dog's-nose; in later times, a stimulating mixture of beer, gin, sugar, and ginger.
19. the common tern, or sea-swallow.
20. in embroidered bookbinding, a fine copper coil closely covered with colored silks.

1. a basic knitting stitch
2. knit with a purl stitch
3. embroider with gold or silver thread
4. make a murmuring sound
5. edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
6. flow in a circular current, of liquids
7. gold or silver wire thread