purl
PURL
labi cum murmure; murmurare; susurrare (Verg.).
labi cum murmure; murmurare; susurrare (Verg.).
purl (subs.):
I. Perhaps contr. fr. purfle, an embroidered hem; limbus: v.BORDER , HEM .
II. A drink; beer infused with bitter and aromatic herbs: *potus, or potio, qui (quae) Anglice purl dicitur. (Ainsw. gives, *potus absynthio commistus.)
I. Perhaps contr. fr. purfle, an embroidered hem; limbus: v.
II. A drink; beer infused with bitter and aromatic herbs: *potus, or potio, qui (quae) Anglice purl dicitur. (Ainsw. gives, *potus absynthio commistus.)
purl (v.): i. e. to flow with a gentle sound (of water: "the brook that purls along the vocal grove," opp. to "fretting o'er a rock"): the same opposition in the two foll. lines:--
/* "Laeta susurrantes fugiunt per gramina rivi;" and,
"It praeceps per saxa sonans spumantia rivis." */
Perh. best single words, murmŭro and sŭsurro, 1: but various poet. terms and phrases may be used for the v. and the adj. purling, as loquor, loquax; garrio, garrulus; sono, sonans; queror, querulus: *fluunt queruli sinuoso tramite rivi. Also purling, s. (of water, etc.) murmur, sonitus. Defluit incerto lapidosus murmure rivus: Sic ego torrentem, qua nil obstabat eunti, Lenius et modico strepitu decurrere vidi, Ov. M. 3, 569: comp. also (for the scene rather than the word), uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis, Hor. Od. 1, 7, 14.
/* "Laeta susurrantes fugiunt per gramina rivi;" and,
"It praeceps per saxa sonans spumantia rivis." */
Perh. best single words, murmŭro and sŭsurro, 1: but various poet. terms and phrases may be used for the v. and the adj. purling, as loquor, loquax; garrio, garrulus; sono, sonans; queror, querulus: *fluunt queruli sinuoso tramite rivi. Also purling, s. (of water, etc.) murmur, sonitus. Defluit incerto lapidosus murmure rivus: Sic ego torrentem, qua nil obstabat eunti, Lenius et modico strepitu decurrere vidi, Ov. M. 3, 569: comp. also (for the scene rather than the word), uda Mobilibus pomaria rivis, Hor. Od. 1, 7, 14.