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substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.

per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars. They have told their money, and let out Their coin upon large interest. Shak.

used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.

A silver coin of Japan, worth about thirty-four cents. [Written also itzebu, ichebu, itcheboo, etc.]

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

A coin of Genoa; any small coin. Chaucer.

To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.

A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears;- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.

ing reckoned from the year 4713 B. C., when the first years of these several cycles would coincide, so that if any year of the period be divided by 28, 19, or 15, the remainder will be the year of the corresponding cycle. The Julian period was proposed by Scaliger, to remove or avoid ambiguities in chronological dates,…

To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with. "It jumps with my humor." Shak. To jump at, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance.

To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin.

A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents. [Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]

A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin. [Written also kreuzer.]

A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.

ry agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union.

An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel. Laurel water, water distilled from the fresh leaves of the cherry laurel, and containing prussic acid and other products carried over in the process. American laurel, or Mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia. See under M…