{n} a small bag used for money, a gift, a prize or sum to be run for at a horse race
If you purse your lips, you move them into a small, rounded shape, usually because you disapprove of something or when you are thinking. She pursed her lips in disapproval. if you purse your lips, you bring them together tightly into a small circle, especially to show disapproval or doubt
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit
A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse
A handbag in which Mom carries the checkbook and keys she can never find because they're buried under tissues, gum wrappers, a plastic container full of cereal, toys from a fast-food restaurant, a teddy bear, a football, wallpaper samples, a grocery list and several outdated coupons
A purse is a small bag that women carry. She looked at me and then reached in her purse for cigarettes
contract one's lips into a rounded shape gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips
The cash prize won by the owner The purse is usually paid to the first five finishers 50% to the winner, 25% for place, 12% for third, 8% for fourth and 5% for fifth