Crossword clues for burse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burse \Burse\, n. [LL. bursa, or F. bourse. See Bourse, and cf. Bursch, Purse.]
A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.]
--Holland.A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries. [Scot.]
(Eccl.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
--Shipley.An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
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A kind of bazaar. [Obs.]
She says she went to the burse for patterns.
--Old Play.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A purse. 2 A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies. 3 (context ecclesiastical English) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use. 4 (context obsolete English) A stock exchange; a bourse. 5 (context obsolete English) A kind of bazaar.
Wikipedia
Burse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charlie Burse (1901–1965), African-American blues musician
- Isaiah Burse (born 1991), American football wide receiver
- Janell Burse (born 1979), American, women's basketball player
- Ray Burse (born 1984), American soccer goalkeeper
- Tony Burse (born 1965), American football player
Usage examples of "burse".
I shall also give you a piece of damask, silks, gold, haircloth and silk for the lining, to make a burse, again to your own design.
Thomas Cromwell, then lord privy seal, a design for a similar Burse to be erected in London.
December, 1568, the Burse was so far complete as to allow of merchants holding their meetings within its walls, but it was not until the 23rd January, 1571, that the queen herself visited it in state and caused it thenceforth to be called the Royal Exchange.
Elys replied hesitantly, for she had been too busy planning the altar-cloth and the burse to consider the cope in any detail.
He took the other, tying triple knots in the thong that held his burse to his belt, loosening his jerkin, swinging his booted feet onto the hard, thin mattress, and pulling up a blanket of surprisingly soft merino.
Those would be his altar cloths, his maniples, his purificators and burses and veils and corporals.
Fetching a silver ewer from a credence table near the vesting altar, the priest set it beside the communion vessels he had brought in from Mass and swept the burse and pall and veil off the chalice.