A doctor and a lawyer were attending a cocktail party when the doctor was approached by a man who asked advice on how to handle his ulcer.
The doctor mumbled some medical advice, then turned to the lawyer and asked,
"How do you handle the situation when you are asked for advice during a social function?"
"Just send a bill for such advice" replied the lawyer.
On the next morning the doctor arrived at his surgery and issued the ulcer-stricken man a $50 bill.
That afternoon he received a $100 bill from the lawyer.
n. Advocate of scrupulous purity, esp. In language or art. purism n. Puristic adj.
PURITY
n. Pureness, cleanness.
PURLER
n. Colloq. Headlong fall. [purl overturn]
PURLIN
n. Horizontal beam along the length of a roof. [anglo-latin perlio]
PURPLE
heart n. Colloq. Heart-shaped stimulant tablet, esp. Of amphetamine.
- passage n. (also purple patch) ornate or elaborate literary passage.
- —n. - colour between red and blue.
- (in full tyrian purple) crimson dye obtained from some molluscs.
- purple robe, esp. Of an emperor or senior magistrate.
- scarlet official dress of a cardinal.
- (prec. By the) position of rank, authority, or privilege. —adj. Of a purple colour. —v. (-ling) make or become purple. purplish adj. [greek porphura, a shellfish yielding dye]
PURSER
n. Officer on a ship who keeps the accounts, esp. The head steward in a passenger vessel.
PURSUE
v. (-sues, -sued, -suing) 1 follow with intent to overtake, capture, or do harm to; go in pursuit.
- continue or proceed along (a route or course of action).
