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Pickpurse :: Pickpurse (n.) One who steals purses, or money from purses..

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 (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..

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..

B :: B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The sma

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.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans..

Purse :: Purse (v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit..

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

Cobbing :: Cobbing (a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2..

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

Sea Purse :: Sea purse () The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks..

Bursar :: Bursar (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery..

Bursiform :: Bursiform (a.) Shaped like a purse.

Purse-proud :: Purse-proud (a.) Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

Purser :: Purser (n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier..

Leathern :: Leathern (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse..

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

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

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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