| 单词 | a short purse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa short purse c. a short purse: a purse soon exhausted; scanty resources. So a short kennel: a small pack of hounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > lack of money pence-lackc1400 a short purse1548 disability1624 low tide1699 embarrassment1727 impecuniosity1818 soldier's thigh1841 pennilessness1852 hard-uppishness1859 hard-upness1869 ooflessness1889 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxlviij Kyng Reyner..for al his long stile, had to short a purse, to sende his doughter honorably, to the kyng her spouse. 1827 Sporting Mag. 21 142 All gentlemen who have but a short kennel should look to the sort of hound they are to keep. 1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 46 (note) A man with a long pedigree, and a very short purse. < as lemmas |
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