noun. A purse.

noun. A flat cloth case for carrying the corporal that is used in celebrating the Eucharist.

noun. A bag; a pouch; a purse.

noun. Anything resembling a purse; a vesicle; a pod.

noun. A bourse; an exchange: as, “merchants' burses,”

noun. A bursary. See bursary

noun. The burse, the Royal Exchange in London, built by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1566, or the New Exchange, called Britain's Burse, and afterward Exeter 'Change, built in 1609 by the Earl of Salisbury on the site of the present Exeter Hall in the Strand. There were shops over the exchange, where female finery was sold. Hence the allusion in the quotation.

noun. A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.

noun. A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.

noun. An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.

noun. An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

noun. A kind of bazaar.

noun. A purse.

noun. A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.

noun. An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.

noun. A stock exchange; a bourse.

noun. A kind of bazaar.

"The burse, which is simply a cover used to keep the corporal from being soiled, and which for that reason was known in Old English as a "corporas-case", is somewhat older."