英文字典中文字典


英文字典中文字典51ZiDian.com



中文字典辞典   英文字典 a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m   n   o   p   q   r   s   t   u   v   w   x   y   z       







请输入英文单字，中文词皆可：

purse    音标拼音: [p'ɚs]
n. 钱包,小钱袋,金钱,募捐款,囊
vt.
vi. 缩拢,皱起

钱包,小钱袋,金钱,募捐款,囊缩拢,皱起

purse
n 1: a container used for carrying money and small personal
items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached
into her bag and found a comb" [synonym: {bag}, {handbag},
{pocketbook}, {purse}]
2: 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: a small bag for carrying money
4: a sum of money offered as a prize; "the purse barely covered
the winner's expenses"
v 1: contract one's lips into a rounded shape
2: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse
ones's lips" [synonym: {purse}, {wrinkle}]

Purse \Purse\, n. [OE. purs, pors, OF. burse, borse, bourse, F.
bourse, LL. bursa, fr. Gr. ? hide, skin, leather. Cf.
{Bourse}, {Bursch}, {Bursar}, {Buskin}.]
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.
[1913 Webster]

Who steals my purse steals trash. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
[1913 Webster]

3. A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a
present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
[1913 Webster]

4. A specific sum of money; as:
(a) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
(b) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
[1913 Webster]

{Light purse}, or {Empty purse}, poverty or want of
resources.

{Long purse}, or {Heavy purse}, wealth; riches.

{Purse crab} (Zool.), 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}.


{Purse net}, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed
or drawn together like a purse. --Mortimer.

{Purse pride}, pride of money; insolence proceeding from the
possession of wealth. --Bp. Hall.

{Purse rat}. (Zool.) See {Pocket gopher}, under {Pocket}.

{Sword and purse}, the military power and financial resources
of a nation.
[1913 Webster]


Purse \Purse\, v. i.
To steal purses; to rob. [Obs. & R.]
[1913 Webster]

I'll purse: . . . I'll bet at bowling alleys. --Beau. &
Fl.
[1913 Webster]


Purse \Purse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pursed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pursing}.]
1. To put into a purse.
[1913 Webster]

I will go and purse the ducats straight. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the
mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
[1913 Webster]

Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

111 Moby Thesaurus words for "purse":
Swiss bank account, abbreviate, and pence, assets, award, bag,
balance, bank account, billfold, bottom dollar, bucks, budget,
capital, cash, cash reserves, checking account, circumscribe,
coarct, cocker, cockle, command of money, compact, compress,
concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe,
contract, corrugate, cramp, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle,
crumple, curtail, decrease, dollars, dough, draw, draw in,
draw together, exchequer, filthy lucre, finances, fund, funds,
furrow, gift, handbag, income, kitty, knit, knot, life savings,
lolly, loot, means, money, money belt, money clip, moneys, narrow,
nest egg, pecuniary resources, pelf, pocket, pocketbook, poke,
pool, porte-monnaie, pouch, pounds, present, prize, pucker,
pucker up, purse strings, ready, reduce, reserves, resources,
revenue, reward, riches, ridge, rimple, ripple, ruck, ruckle,
rumple, savings, savings account, scratch, shekels, shillings,
shirr, shorten, solidify, strangle, strangulate, substance,
treasure, treasury, unregistered bank account, wallet, wealth,
wherewithal, wimple, wrinkle

Purse
(1.) Gr. balantion, a bag (Luke 10:4; 22:35, 36).

(2.) Gr. zone, properly a girdle (Matt. 10:9; Mark 6:8), a
money-belt. As to our Lord's sending forth his disciples without
money in their purses, the remark has been made that in this
"there was no departure from the simple manners of the country.
At this day the farmer sets out on excursions quite as extensive
without a para in his purse; and a modern Moslem prophet of
Tarshisha thus sends forth his apostles over this identical
region. No traveller in the East would hestitate to throw
himself on the hospitality of any village." Thomson's Land and
the Book. (See {SCRIP}.)

安装中文字典英文字典查询工具!


中文字典英文字典工具:
选择颜色:
输入中英文单字

































































英文字典中文字典相关资料:







中文字典-英文字典  2005-2009