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

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

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

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

Unpursed :: Unpursed (a.) Robbed of a purse, or of money..

Purse :: Purse (n.) A specific sum of mone.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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