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An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration. Golden legend. See under Golden.

The act of making legitimate. The coining or legitimation of money. East.

Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.

A Chinese copper coin; a cash. See Cash.

A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.

Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin.

Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.

An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. -- n.

A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called. [Obs.] God wot, no Lussheburghes payen ye. Chaucer.

An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.

ree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

ary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The attacks of the disease coincide with the dissolution of the corpuscles and liberation of the spores and products of growth of the parasites into the blood plasma. Several species of the parasite are distinguished, as P. vivax, producing tertian malaria;…

An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.

An old weight and coin. See Marc. "Lend me a mark." Chaucer.

guished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, as, for excellence or depravity; -- usually with an unfavorable suggestion.