purse

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v purse contract one's lips into a rounded shape
  • v purse gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker "purse ones's lips"
  • n purse a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) "she reached into her bag and found a comb"
  • n purse a small bag for carrying money
  • n purse a sum of money offered as a prize "the purse barely covered the winner's expenses"
  • n purse a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse "he made the contribution out of his own purse","he and his wife shared a common purse"
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• Interesting fact: When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse
• • Purse 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. "Who steals my purse steals trash."
  • Purse A specific sum of money
  • Purse A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
  • Purse Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse .
  • Purse In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
  • Purse In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
  • Purse To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit. "Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow."
  • Purse To put into a purse. "I will go and purse the ducats straight."
  • v. i Purse To steal purses; to rob. "I'll purse : . . . I'll bet at bowling alleys."
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• Interesting fact: The penculine titmouse of Africa builds its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesman use their nests for purses and carrying cases.
• • n purse A bag or pouch; specifically, a small bag or case in which money is contained or carried.
  • n purse Figuratively, money; means; resources.
  • n purse A treasury; finances: as, to exhaust a nation's purse, or the public purse.
  • n purse A purseful of money; a sum of money offered as a prize or collected as a present: as, to win the purse in a horse-race; to make up a purse as a present.
  • n purse A specific sum of money. In Turkey large accounts are often set down in purses of 500 Medjidie piasters, equivalent to 4 pounds 10 shillings of English money, or about $22.
  • n purse In zoology and anatomy, some kind of a pouch, bursa, marsupium, or ovicapsule.
  • n purse An officer of the British royal household charged with the payment of the sovereign's private expenses. His official title is keeper of the privy purse.
  • purse To put in a purse.
  • purse To contract into folds or wrinkles; knit; pucker: frequently with up.
  • purse To take purses; rob.
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• • n Purse purs a small bag for money, orig. made of skin: a sum of money, esp. a sum given as a present or offered as a prize: a treasury: a person's finances
  • v.t Purse to put into a purse: to contract as the mouth of a purse: to draw into folds or wrinkles
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• Portuguese Proverb

  

  “An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.”
• Victor Hugo

  

  “As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
• Nicholas Breton

  

  “I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.”
• Seneca

  

  “Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.”
• Benjamin Franklin

  

  “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
• Lord Burleigh

  

  “Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.”

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