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Purse   /pərs/   Listen
Purse

noun
1.
A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).  Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook.
2.
A sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse.  "He and his wife shared a common purse"
3.
A small bag for carrying money.
4.
A sum of money offered as a prize.
verb
(past & past part. pursed; pres. part. pursing)
1.
Contract one's lips into a rounded shape.
2.
Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.  Synonym: wrinkle.



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"Purse" Quotes from Famous Books



... may have desired by a timely arrest to prevent an open revolt, which would have meant immediate destruction of the whole band with women and children. Can any position be imagined more irritating that that of a careful man of business who is keeper of the purse for a company of heedless enthusiasts professing complete indifference to the value of money, misunderstanding the genius of their chief, and looking out every morning for some sign in the clouds, a prophecy of their immediate appointment as vicegerents of a power that would supersede ...
— Pages from a Journal with Other Papers • Mark Rutherford
... that she had once shaved off her eyebrows to promote their growth. Many patients in the asylum sit for a long time rocking themselves backwards and forwards; "and if spoken to, they stop their movements, purse up their eyes, depress the corners of the mouth, and burst out crying." In some of these cases, the being spoken to or kindly greeted appears to suggest some fanciful and sorrowful notion; but in other cases an effort of any kind excites weeping, independently of any sorrowful ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin
... year in the Low Country, and Marlborough himself said, 'Well done!' when I, with ten rank and file, held a bridge across a canal for half an hour against a company of French. He sent for me after it was over, but when he found I couldn't read or write he couldn't promote me; but he gave me a purse of twenty guineas, and I don't know but what that suited me better, for I am a deal more comfortable as a sergeant than I should have been as an officer; but you see, if you had been in my place ...
— The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough in Spain • G. A. Henty
... said, and went through the process of recollection; but very dimly, and with much labour. She put her hand into her pocket and pulled out her purse, and shook its contents into the man's hand; and then began meekly to unpin her shawl, although they had turned away without ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... is it? That Reb stole my watch." Even yet it was amusing. He laughed at the remembrance of having been relieved by the prisoners of purse and watch. ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell


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