word of the day: purl

The word of the day is purl:

1. to flow with curling or rippling motion, as a shallow stream does over stones.

2. to flow with a murmuring sound.

3. to pass in a manner or with a sound likened to this. (dictionary.com) 

"An anodyne is a cure, a palliative, a source of soothing comfort; as an adjective, it means capable of bestowing comfort, eliminating pain; relaxing: anodyne brochures from the Azuriko tourist bureau promising melodious brooks and purling streams, beneficent mists from waterfalls, spas with radioactive waters that put flight to the most searing gout, plaguing doubt."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative