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Burse   Listen
noun
Burse  n.  
1.
A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. (Obs.)
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.
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."





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"Burse" Quotes from Famous Books



... years before when he came to us. His little linen picture of the five wounds was fastened over his breast with thorns. He carried across his arm the second white-sleeved kirtle that he had, and his burse was on his girdle. He held out two of the ...
— The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary • Robert Hugh Benson
... the life of Robert Chalmers Fordyce—so Robert Chalmers himself informed me years afterwards—was the examination for the Bursary which he gained at Edinburgh University. A bursary is what an English undergraduate would call a "Schol." (Imagine a Scottish student talking about a "Burse"!) ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay


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