purse : Idioms & Phrases

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Light purse, ∨ Empty purse

  • poverty or want of resources.
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Long purse, ∨ Heavy purse

  • wealth; riches.
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Privy purse

  • noun allowance for a monarch's personal expenses
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  • moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. Eng. Macaulay.
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Purse crab

  • (Zoöl.), any land crab of the genus Birgus, allied to the hermit crabs. They sometimes weigh twenty pounds or more, and are very strong, being able to crack cocoanuts with the large claw. They chiefly inhabit the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab.
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Purse net

  • a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. Mortimer.
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Purse pride

  • pride of money; insolence proceeding from the possession of wealth. Bp. Hall.
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Purse rat

  • . (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket.
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purse seine

  • noun a seine designed to be set by two boats around a school of fish and then closed at the bottom by means of a line
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purse string

  • noun a drawstring used to close the mouth of a purse
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purse-proud

  • adjective satellite proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)
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Purse"-proud` adjective
Definitions
  1. Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
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purse-string operation

  • noun a surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman; is performed when the cervix has failed to retain previous pregnancies
    Shirodkar's operation.
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sea purse

  • noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
    sea purse; undertow; sea-puss; sea puss; sea-poose.
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Sea" purse`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
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sea-purse

  • noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
    sea purse; undertow; sea-puss; sea puss; sea-poose.
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Shepherd's pouch, ∨ Shepherd's purse

  • (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant (Capsella Bursapastoris) bearing small white flowers and pouchlike pods. See Illust. of Silicle.
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shepherd's purse

  • noun white-flowered annual European herb bearing triangular notched pods; nearly cosmopolitan as an introduced weed
    shepherd's pouch; Capsella bursa-pastoris.
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Stock purse

  • . (a) A common purse, as distinguished from a private purse. (b) (Mil.) Moneys saved out of the expenses of a company or regiment, and applied to objects of common interest . Eng.
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Sword and purse

  • the military power and financial resources of a nation.
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Venus's purse

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Venus's basket, above.
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