Word Meanings - PURSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• PURSEFUL
  All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
• PURSERSHIP
  The office of purser. Totten.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• PURSER
  A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster. 2. A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• PURSE
  1. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash.
• PURSET
  A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• PURSE-PROUD
  Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
• UNPURSED
  1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• CUTPURSE
  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 pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is
• DISPURSE
  To disburse. Shak.
• SEA PURSE
  The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
• PICKPURSE
  One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.