Definition of purse

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

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Purse :: Purse (n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters..
Leathern :: Leathern (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse..
Unline :: Unline (v. t.) To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse..
Bulse :: Bulse (n.) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc..
Bag :: Bag (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament..
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..
Pursership :: Pursership (n.) The office of purser.
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..
Marsupite :: Marsupite (n.) A fossil crinoid of the genus Marsupites, resembling a purse in form..
Unpursed :: Unpursed (a.) Robbed of a purse, or of 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..
Cobbing :: Cobbing (a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2..
Her :: Her (pron. & a.) The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out..
Pursed :: Pursed (imp. & p. p.) of Purs.
Pickpocket :: Pickpocket (n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
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.
Bursiform :: Bursiform (a.) Shaped like a purse.
Pickpurse :: Pickpurse (n.) One who steals purses, or money from purses..
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..
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..
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