A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
A small bag for carrying money.
A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
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.
The payment of tithes.
A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
The collection of tithes.
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.