To decorate with fringe or embroidery. "Nature's cradle more enchased and purled." B. Jonson.
1. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl. Sir P. Sidney . 2. An inversion of stitches in kn...