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Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money- making; crafty. The mercurial wand of commerce. J. Q. Adams.

bitant of Mexico. Mexican poppy (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family (Argemone Mexicana) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms. -- Mexican tea (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (Chenopodium ambrosioides).

A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.

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

A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

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

ular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

A place where money is coined by public authority.

Money. [Slang, Eng.]

wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.

To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.

A sort of base money or coin. Miter box (Carp. & Print.), an apparatus for guiding a handsaw at the proper angle in making a miter joint; esp., a wooden or metal trough with vertical kerfs in its upright sides, for guides. -- Miter dovetail (Carp.), a kind of dovetail for a miter joint in which there is only one joint…

See Moneyed.

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

blishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.

of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. He gat more money. Chaucer. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.

Money; -- in contempt. The fatal muck we quarreled for. Beau. & Fl. Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.

To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts. [Obs.] Udall.

One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." Pope.