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A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]

A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

A Dutch coin. See Guilder.

pon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. -- To go with. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with. -- To go (well, ill, or hard) with, to affect (one) in such manner. -- To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of. -- To go wrong. (a) To take a wrong road or direct…

le by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.

Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke.

fected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. -- Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian…

An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.

A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one s…

An English coin of the value of half a penny; also, the value of half a penny.

face of rough plastering. -- Hard lines, hardship; difficult conditions. -- Hard money, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper money. -- Hard oyster (Zoöl.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.] - - Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fun…

A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.

so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

, field, seize, feign. friend; and with o often forms a proper diphtong, as in oil, join, coin.

h a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the "greatest facility for the greatest number of people." The word "Ido" means in the language itself "offsprin…

A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars. McElrath.

To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.