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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.

usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars. They have told their money, and let out Their coin upon large interest. Shak.

invoice. Goods, wares, and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway. Madison.

ny definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

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.

The dollar fish.

merly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eight of a dollar (or 12

paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.

to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! Addison.…

A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.

unt of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.