[purs] 
noun, verb, pursed, purs⋅ing.| 1. | a woman's handbag or pocketbook. |
| 2. | a small bag, pouch, or case for carrying money. |
| 3. | anything resembling a purse in appearance, use, etc. |
| 4. | a sum of money offered as a prize or reward. |
| 5. | a sum of money collected as a present or the like. |
| 6. | money, resources, or wealth. |
| 7. | to contract into folds or wrinkles; pucker: to purse one's lips. |
| 8. | to put into a purse. |
| purse (pûrs) n.
To gather or contract (the lips or brow) into wrinkles or folds; pucker. [Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin bursa; see bursa.] purse'like' adj. |
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.)
purse
In addition to the idiom beginning with purse, also see can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.