Purse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pucker, esp. the lips
• (with reference to the lips) pucker or contract, typically to express disapproval or irritation
• To put into a purse.
• To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
• To steal purses; to rob.
• contract one\'s lips into a rounded shape
• gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
• draw (one's lips) together into a small round shape
NOUN:
• a small pouch of leather or plastic used for carrying money, typically by a woman
• the money possessed by or available to a person or country
• a sum of money given as a prize in a sporting contest, especially a boxing match
• a handbag
• small bag for money
• 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.
• Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
• A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
• A specific sum of money
• In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
• In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
• a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
• a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
• a small bag for carrying money

Words related to PURSE

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How to use PURSE in a sentence

• His hand shook, his eyes glistened as he took his purse from his pocket, and gave several guineas from it to the mendicant.
• Wherever there is a canal to be excavated, a railway to be built, or a line of steamers to be established, our Cousin John is ready with a full purse to favor the enterprise.
• When they are vexed they purse that mouth up into a bunch until it looks like a crumpled saddle-flap hanging on a hedge.
• For the sake of accuracy in the description, we will select scarlet and white for this purse.
• Ill as she could afford it, her purse paid my inevitable expenses while I lay helpless.
• The other unfortunate gentleman looked into his purse, and found only a shilling and a sixpence in it.
• She opened her purse and brought out the notice which she had received of the death of her last boy.
• Some fine clothes have been sent from Paris for him, and five gold pieces in a pretty purse.
• His purse and his time were ever at the command of whosoever could show fair claim upon them.
• But her slender purse was swiftly emptied when any human pain that money could relieve came in her way.
• It is true we plundered them a little when we took them, and I will even confess that it is their purse that Monsieur du Vallon and I draw on in our nightly play.
• Bill would have smelled a purse lean as the man himself and would have shied a little.
• We cannot be too cautious how we tax the time and purse of a friend, or weigh too seriously the question of mutual advantage in the introduction.
• Cheron, whom I had been ready to accuse, half an hour ago, of having stolen my watch and purse.
• A round of large circles edges the purse round the outside.
• Four flowrets are worked over the blue silk, with black purse silk, in raised satin stitch, with a dot in gold thread for the centre.
• So Jacob married his Gretchen, and, between his plough and his purse, he was busy enough, I can tell you.
• She had gone only a short distance when she saw a gentleman in front of her drop his purse.
• She did not miss her purse until she went to the door to buy milk.

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