Dictionary entry

Purple (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pur″ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Purpled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Purpling.] To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

When morn

Purples the east. Milton.

Reclining soft in blissful bowers,

Purpled sweet with springing flowers. Fenton.