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A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

o, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value.

e common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.

To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning.

A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21. Malcom.

A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration. Matters of great moment. Shak. It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others. Bentley.

much used as money by savage tribes. See Cowrie. -- Money of account, a denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin; e.g., the mill is a money of account in the United States, but not a coin. -- Money order, an order for the payment of money; specifically, a…

nly, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.

To attain in value; to amount. Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. Pope.

ot much to clothe his enemies. Milton. To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.

. The murry (Muræna Helenæ) of Southern Europe was the muræna of the Romans. It is highly valued as a food fish.

In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything. [Obs.] [Written also mournival.]

nd scarcely an improvement upon it. -- Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

sh brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exuds from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the…

A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.

gh. "Near twenty years ago." Shak. "Near a fortnight ago." Addison. Near about the yearly value of the land. Locke.