bulse
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.
Examples
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This is an unreasonable mode of disturbing our tranquillity, and should be corrected; let me then comfort myself with the large treasure of Johnson's conversation which I have preserved for my own enjoyment and that of the world, and let me exhibit what I have upon each occasion, whether more or less, whether a bulse, or only a few sparks of a diamond.
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In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation.
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton
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Pray, Clarence, look at her, entangled in her bale of gold muslin, and conscious of her bulse of diamonds!
Note
The word 'bulse' comes ultimately from a Middle Latin word meaning 'purse'.
