Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pursed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Purse \Purse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pursed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pursing}.]
1. To put into a purse.
I will go and purse the ducats straight. --Shak.
2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the
mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow.
--Shak.
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