Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of purse is as below...

Purse :: Purse (n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters..

Purse :: Purse (n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans..

Purseful :: Purseful (n.) All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse..

Purser :: Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc..

Empty :: Empty (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles..

Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..

Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle..

Burse :: Burse (n.) A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull..

Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse..

Unline :: Unline (v. t.) To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse..

Corrugate :: Corrugate (v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead..

Purse :: Purse (v. t.) To put into a purse.

Pickpocket :: Pickpocket (n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.

Line :: Line (v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money..

Pursed :: Pursed (imp. & p. p.) of Purs.

Cacoon :: Cacoon (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc..

Penduline :: Penduline (n.) A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers..

Bag :: Bag (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament..

Purser :: Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster..

Random Fonts

Most Popular