Crossword clues for pursing
pursing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purse \Purse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pursing.]
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To put into a purse.
I will go and purse the ducats straight.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. An expression or motion that purses. vb. (present participle of purse English)
Usage examples of "pursing".
Strapping the blood-pressure cuff to his arm, she touched his cheek, pursing her lips.
He remained submissive and polite, and she would find herself practising in private all the narrowings of the eyes and hard pursings of the lips that would eventually accompany the hypothetical tempest of recrimination and contempt that every day she looked forward to heaping upon his head.