These are the meanings of the letters PURFLY when you unscramble them.
- Furl (v. t.)
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.
- Fury (n.)
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
- Fury (n.)
A thief.
- Fury (n.)
One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
- Fury (n.)
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
- Fury (n.)
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
- Fury (n.)
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
- Purl (n.)
A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- Purl (n.)
A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
- Purl (n.)
A tern.
- Purl (n.)
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- Purl (n.)
An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
- Purl (n.)
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.
- Purl (v. & n.)
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- Purl (v. i.)
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.
- Purl (v. t.)
To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
- Ruly (a.)
Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.