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purse
I. \ˈpərs, ˈpə̄s, ˈpəis, dial ˈpəs\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English purs, from Old English, modification (perhaps influenced by Old English pusa, posa bag) of Medieval Latin bursa, from Late Latin, oxhide, from Greek byrsa
1.
a. : a small bag closed with a drawstring and used to carry money; broadly : a receptacle (as a handbag, pocketbook, or wallet) used to carry money and often other small objects about with one
b. : a pouch or other receptacle (as in a fishing net) that suggests a purse in form
c.
(1) archaic : a normal or abnormal bodily structure in the form of a pouch
(2) : scrotum — used chiefly of domestic animals
2.
a. : a money purse with its contents; also : a sum of money : means, resources, funds
< live within one's purse >
< all shared the common purse >
< charities from his private purse >
b.
(1) : a sum of money offered as a prize or as a present
< a race with a purse of $3000 >
< collected a purse to help the flood victims >
(2) : purse race
c. archaic : a definite sum of money in the Muslim Orient
< in imperial Turkey a purse of silver equaled 500 piasters, a purse of gold, 10,000 >
3. : a splinter or spark that pops from an open fire
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English pursen, from purs purse
transitive verb
1. : to put into a purse
< I will … purse the ducats — Shakespeare >
2. obsolete : to enclose and hold as if in a purse : shut up or off : confine
3.
a. : to draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles like the mouth of a purse : pucker, knit
< didst contract and purse thy brow — Shakespeare >
b. : to draw closed (the mouth of a purse seine)
intransitive verb
: to become puckered : draw some part (as one's lips or brow) up or together |