Hypertext Webster Gateway: "burse"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars
in their studies; also, the sum given to the
beneficiaries. [Scot.]

3. (Eccl.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not
in use. --Shipley.

4. An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of
continental Europe. Same as {Bourse}.

5. A kind of bazaar. [Obs.]

She says she went to the burse for patterns. --Old
Play.

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