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To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples.

A permit or clearance. Chop dollar, a silver dollar stamped to attest its purity. -- chop of tea, a number of boxes of the same make and quality of leaf. -- Chowchow chop. See under Chowchow. -- Grand chop, a ship's port clearance. S. W. Williams.

, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

n at both ends. -- Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double,…

panish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

n by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.

The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [Obs.]

A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc. Simmonds.

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…

Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.

United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zoöl.), a minute European mite (Lep…

ess; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars. Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Ps. lx. 11. God is . . . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1. Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. South.

A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.

Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.

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