Purse vs. Pouch

A small bag for carrying money.

(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)

A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.

(transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.

To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.

To put into a purse.

To steal purses; to rob.

A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.

Example: ‘Who steals my purse steals trash.’;

Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.

A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.

A specific sum of money

To put into a purse.

Example: ‘I will go and purse the ducats straight.’;

To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.

Example: ‘Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow.’;

To steal purses; to rob.

Example: ‘I'll purse: . . . I'll bet at bowling alleys.’;

a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

Example: ‘she reached into her bag and found a comb’;

a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse;

Example: ‘he made the contribution out of his own purse’; ‘he and his wife shared a common purse’;

a small bag for carrying money

a sum of money offered as a prize;

Example: ‘the purse barely covered the winner's expenses’;

contract one's lips into a rounded shape

gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker;

Example: ‘purse ones's lips’;

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.

A protuberant belly; a paunch.

A cyst or sac containing fluid.

(botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

(transitive) To enclose within a pouch.

Example: ‘The beggar pouched the coin.’;

(transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

Example: ‘We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.’;

(of fowls and fish) To swallow.

(obsolete) To pout.

(obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch

To put or take into a pouch.

To swallow; - said of fowls.

To pout.

To pocket; to put up with.

a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or carrying things

an enclosed space;

Example: ‘the trapped miners found a pocket of air’;

(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

put into a small bag

send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

swell or protrude outwards;

Example: ‘His eyes bulged with surprise’;