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ney carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak.

Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

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

Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier. Purser's name (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]

The office of purser. Totten.

A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.

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 necessary for a cutpurse. Shak.

To disburse. [Obs.] Shak.

One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.

The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.

Robbed of a purse, or of money. [R.] Pollock.

y. Milton. The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

presenting sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. T…

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

e of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.] Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9.

other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc. [India] Macaulay.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.] Holland.

Shaped like a purse.