Definition of purse

"purse" in the noun sense

1. bag, handbag, pocketbook, 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"

2. 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"

3. purse

a small bag for carrying money

4. purse

a sum of money offered as a prize

"the purse barely covered the winner's expenses"

"purse" in the verb sense

1. purse

contract one's lips into a rounded shape

2. purse, wrinkle

gather or contract into wrinkles or folds pucker

"purse ones's lips"

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Quotations for purse

Poor in purse, sick at heart. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Let your purse be your master. [ Proverb ]

A good bargain is a pick-purse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A drunkard's purse is a bottle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who builds clears his purse. [ Italian Proverb ]

Little and often fills the purse. [ Proverb ]

A beggar's purse is always empty. [ Proverb ]

A light purse makes a heavy heart. [ Proverb ]

Our best friends are in our purse. [ German Proverb ]

Ask your purse what you should buy. [ Proverb ]

Fair words make me look to my purse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An empty purse frights away friends. [ Proverb ]

Keep your purse and your mouth close. [ Proverb ]

His purse and his palate are ill met. [ Proverb ]

There I caught a knave in a purse-net. [ Proverb ]

A full purse makes the mouth run over. [ Proverb ]

Two hands in a dish, and one in a purse. [ Proverb ]

All is not won, that is put in the purse. [ Proverb ]

Money in purse will be always in fashion. [ Proverb ]

The hand of the poor is the purse of God. [ Du Vair ]

A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met. [ Proverb ]

A good prayer is master of another's purse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Your purse opened not when it was paid, for. [ Proverb ]

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. [ Victor Hugo ]

Every fancy you consult, consult your purse. [ Franklin ]

Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]

He hath left his purse in his other breeches. [ Proverb ]

Better the heart happy than the purse (full). [ Italian Proverb ]

He that shews his purse longs to be rid of it. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person. [ Proverb ]

A purse without money is but a piece of leather. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. [ Proverb ]

The purse of the patient often protracts his case. [ Zimmermann ]

He that buys and lies, shall feel it in his purse. [ Proverb ]

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. [ Haliburton ]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]

The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse. [ Italian Proverb ]

He had a prince's mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse. [ Fuller ]

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. [ Proverb ]

The purse-strings are the most common ties of friendship. [ Proverb ]

That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money. [ Proverb ]

If you put nothing into your purse, you can take nothing out. [ Proverb ]

He that has but four, and spends five, has no need of a purse. [ Proverb ]

He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's. [ Spanish Proverb ]

A petitioner at court that spares his purse, angles without a bait. [ Proverb ]

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber. [ Juvenal ]

O, I cry your mercy; There is my purse, to cure that blow of thine. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that has no silver in his purse should have silver on his tongue. [ Proverb ]

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. [ Franklin ]

Penny in purse will make me drink, when all the friends I have will not. [ Proverb ]

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. [ Saadi ]

The poor man's penny unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse. [ Proverb ]

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse. [ N. P. Willis ]

The epicure puts his purse into his belly; and the miser his belly into his purse. [ Proverb ]

The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social. [ Carlyle ]

Put a poor man's penny and a rich man's penny into a purse, and they'll come out alike. [ Proverb ]

Memory is like a purse: if it be overfull, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. [ Fuller ]

A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul, the "purgatory" of the purse, and the "paradise" of the eyes. [ Fontenelle ]

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. [ Swift ]

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social - I mean a purse? [ Carlyle ]

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. [ William Shakespeare ]

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. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

When you hear that your neighbour has picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. [ Goldsmith ]

The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]

The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

purse in Scrabble®

The word purse is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters purse:

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(30)
SPRUE
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PURES
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purse in Words With Friends™

The word purse is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters purse:

SPRUE
(51)
PURES
(51)
PURSE
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Words containing the sequence purse

Words with purse in them (2 words)

Words that end with purse (2 words)

Word Growth involving purse

Shorter words in purse

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Longer words containing purse

cutpurse cutpurses

pursed

purseful pursefuls

purseless

purselike

purser pursers

purses cutpurses