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EMPTY PURSE

Definition: EMPTY PURSE

EMPTY PURSE

1. Poverty or want of resources.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: EMPTY PURSE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Poverty

Empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EMPTY PURSE

Specialty definitions using "EMPTY PURSE": QUEER BUNG. (references)

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Image Slideshow: EMPTY PURSE

Illustrations:
EMPTY PURSE

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Familiar Quotations: EMPTY PURSE

AuthorQuotation

Nicholas Breton

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: EMPTY PURSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-m-p-p-r-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: permutes, preempts, pretypes.

-3 letters: eupepsy, permute, preempt, presume, pretype, pumpers, repumps, reputes, retypes, stepper, stumper, sumpter, supreme, tempers, tuyeres.

-4 letters: empery, erupts, estrum, merest, meters, metres, mustee, muster, peruse, pester, peters, preset, pumper, purees, purest, repump, repute, resume, retems, retuse, retype, rupees, sempre, septum, steppe, stumpy, supper, surety, temper, trumps, tuyere, tuyers, uppers.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-m-p-p-r-s-t-u-y"
 

+3 letters: presumptively, supplementary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EMPTY PURSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4D 50 54 59      50 55 52 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001101 01010000 01010100 01011001 00100000 01010000 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#80 &#84 &#89 &#32 &#80 &#85 &#82 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0050 0054 0059      0050 0055 0052 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

394750545925055525339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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