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Sea Barrow :: Sea barrow () A sea purse.

Purse :: Purse (n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse..

Marsipobranchia :: Marsipobranchia (n. pl.) A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii..

Pursership :: Pursership (n.) The office of purser.

Purse :: Purse (n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie..

Purse :: Purse (v. i.) To steal purses; to rob.

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..

Sea Pincushion :: Sea pincushion () A sea purse.

Sport :: Sporran (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress..

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

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

Knittle :: Knittle (n.) A string that draws together a purse or bag.

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

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

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..

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

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..

Purse :: Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse..

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

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..

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