Word Meanings - UNPURSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower.

Related words: (words related to UNPURSED)

• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• PURSEFUL
  All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
• PURSERSHIP
  The office of purser. Totten.
• POLLOCK
  A marine gadoid fish , native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• ROBBIN
  A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. Simmonds.
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• 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
• 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.
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• ROBBER
  One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton. Syn. -- Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; rifler;
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• EXPENDITOR
  A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• EXPEND
  To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil
• PURSE-PROUD
  Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
• MONEYWORT
  A trailing plant , with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
• UNPURSED
  1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• 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
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• DISPURSE
  To disburse. Shak.
• SEA ROBBER
  A pirate; a sea rover.