Word Meanings - PURSET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.

PURSEFUL
All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
PURSERSHIP
The office of purser. Totten.
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
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.
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.
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.