purse

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.
2. n. A small bag or pouch for carrying money.
3. n. Something that resembles a bag or pouch.
4. n. Available wealth or resources; money.
5. n. A sum of money collected as a present or offered as a prize.
6. v. To gather or contract (the lips or brow) into wrinkles or folds; pucker.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bag or pouch; specifically, a small bag or case in which money is contained or carried.
2. n. Figuratively, money; means; resources.
3. n. A treasury; finances: as, to exhaust a nation's purse, or the public purse.
4. n. A purseful of money; a sum of money offered as a prize or collected as a present: as, to win the purse in a horse-race; to make up a purse as a present.
5. n. A specific sum of money. In Turkey large accounts are often set down in purses of 500 Medjidie piasters, equivalent to 4 pounds 10 shillings of English money, or about $22.
6. n. In zoology and anatomy, some kind of a pouch, bursa, marsupium, or ovicapsule.
7. n. An officer of the British royal household charged with the payment of the sovereign's private expenses. His official title is keeper of the privy purse.
8. To put in a purse.
9. To contract into folds or wrinkles; knit; pucker: frequently with up.
10. To take purses; rob.

Wiktionary

1. n. A small bag for carrying money.
2. n. US A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
3. n. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
4. v. transitive To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
5. v. intransitive, obsolete, rare To steal purses; to rob.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. Hence, a treasury; finances.
3. n. A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present
4. n. A specific sum of money.
5. n. In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
6. n. In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
7. v. To put into a purse.
8. v. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
9. v. Obs. & R. To steal purses; to rob.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
2. v. contract one's lips into a rounded shape
3. n. a sum of money offered as a prize
4. n. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
5. n. a small bag for carrying money
6. v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.