to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re pure busy.
To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
To cleanse; to refine.
One who, or that which, is pure.
... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”).
[…] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle...
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