Search the Dictionary

t express action as distinct from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the adv…

sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak.

cessively. -- To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to reach or get; as, he is after money.

The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

um; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

y, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

or consent. [Colloq.] These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.

Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell.

A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.

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

An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

e or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.] Money answereth all things. Eccles. x. 19.

or a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

rket price of; -- opposed to depreciate. [U.S.] Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. Ramsay.

ers; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.