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▪ I. purring, vbl. n.|ˈpɜːrɪŋ|
[f. purr v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb purr.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. Scholia 162 The purring of catts. 1816Shelley Let. to Peacock 17 July, Their hymns are the purring of kittens. 1888Abp. Benson in A. C. Benson Life (1899) II. 209 The night-jar fills up his [the nightingale's] intervals with the softest purring.
b. attrib. purring thrill, purring tremor, purring vibration: a peculiar thrill (like that felt in a cat when purring), present in certain conditions of the heart and great vessels, as aneurysm, and valvular lesions.
1833J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (1834) 657 These symptoms are still more marked, if the purring-thrill accompanies the bellows-sound. 1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Purring Tremor. 1876Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 151 Marked pulsation being visible in the second, third and fourth left intercostal spaces, over which also a well-pronounced purring thrill was felt. 1876tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. VI. 127 In palpating the finger feels a purring vibration over the cardiac apex.
▪ II. purring, ppl. a.|ˈpɜːrɪŋ|
[f. purr v. + -ing2.]
That purrs: in various senses of the vb.
1699Pomfret Fortunate Complaint 40, I would not change my chains For all the trophies purring Maevius gains. 1727Gay Fables i. xxi. 18 She saw that, if his trade went on, The purring race must be undone. 1827G. Darley Sylvia 17 His Hostess..Who at her purring wheel had been. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. x. 354 He mellowed down into an amiable purring old gentleman. |