Usually means: Tightly closed or pressed together.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pursed: Merriam-Webster
  2. pursed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pursed: Vocabulary.com
  4. pursed: Wordnik
  5. pursed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pursed: Wiktionary
  7. Pursed, pursed: Dictionary.com
  8. pursed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pursed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Pursed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pursed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. pursed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pursed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursed: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursed: Idioms

(Note: See purse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Purse)

noun:  A small bag for carrying money.
noun:  (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
noun:  A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
noun:  (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
verb:  (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
verb:  To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
verb:  To put into a purse.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
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