Definition of purse

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

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Crumenal :: Crumenal (n.) A purse.
Sea Barrow :: Sea barrow () A sea purse.
Pursership :: Pursership (n.) The office of purser.
Private :: Private (a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary..
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..
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..
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..
Purse :: Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse..
Cacoon :: Cacoon (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc..
Purse :: Purse (v. t.) To put into a purse.
Bag :: Bag (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse..
Purseful :: Purseful (n.) All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse..
Purser :: Purser (n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster..
Bursar :: Bursar (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery..
Scrotiform :: Scrotiform (a.) Purse-shaped; pouch-shaped.
Purse :: Purse (n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans..
Cobbing :: Cobbing (a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2..
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.
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