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Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

To reward; to repay. [Obs.] Waytt.

Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.

me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel. I kept myself from mine iniquity. Ps. xviii. 23.

Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi. Blackstone. They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition. Landor. Modus operandi ( Etym: [L.], manner of operating.

te, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine. Monthly nurse, a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.

A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.

riginally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

roll of the army. -- To muster troops out of service (Mil.), to register them for final payment and discharge. -- To muster up, to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to obtain with some effort or difficulty. One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits. Hazlitt.…

borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind. Bouvier.

- On the nail, in hand; on the spot; immediately; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail. "You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail." Beaconsfield. -- To hit the nail on the head, to hit most effectively; to do or say a thing in the right way.

e; a family. The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities. Motley.

or the like. -- Nature worship, the worship of the personified powers of nature. -- To pay the debt of nature, to die.

e, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts. I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs. Shak. This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. Milton.

The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. Mozley & W.

Inability to pay debts; insolvency.

A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.

To observe; to see to mark; to take note of; to heed; to pay attention to.