Word Meanings - PURSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
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- CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - PURSEFUL
All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse. - PURSERSHIP
The office of purser. Totten. - CONTAINANT
A container. - ENOUGH
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - PURSER
A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster. 2. A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - PURSE
1. 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. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. - PURSET
A purse or purse net. B. Jonson. - CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores - PURSE-PROUD
Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches. - UNPURSED
1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower. - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - CUTPURSE
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 - DISPURSE
To disburse. Shak. - SEA PURSE
The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks. - PICKPURSE
One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.