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Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

tockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid. Simmonds.

To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

ment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

At bottom; fundamentally; essentially.

ilable months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.

the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.…

Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports. The basis of public credit is good faith. A. Hamilton.

d to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple…

In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.

receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund. [Colloq.]

perly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.

The fundament; the buttocks.

d to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.