Unpurse

v. [UN-² 5, 4, 3.]

  1.  trans. To take (money) out of a purse; to disburse.

1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 146. The time is ofte cursed, That evere was the gold unpursed, The which was leid upon the bok.

1570.  Levins, Manip., 191. To vnburse and vnpurse, expendere, insumere.

1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Grand d’esboursement d’argent, a great vnpursing of mony.

1617.  Tourneur, Ath. Trag., V. i. (Stage direct.), Unpurses the gold.

  2.  To rob of one’s purse.

1827.  Pollok, Course T., VIII. 382. The uncivil robber, who unpursed The traveller on the highway.

  3.  To relax from a pursed state. Also intr.

1871.  Browning, Pr. Hohenst., 45. Now I permit your plump lips to unpurse.

c. 1880.  R. Bridges, in A. D. Coleridge, Eton in Forties (1896), 174. Unpursed his mouth, empty his mighty chest, His run is o’er.