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rticular; wholly equipped or prepared. "[I] am all redy at your hest." Chaucer. -- Ready money, means of immediate payment; cash. "'Tis all the ready money fate can give." Cowley. -- Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc. -- To make ready, to make preparation; to…

A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.

A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

ing that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter. Receyven all in gree that God us sent. Chaucer.

A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier.…

enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.

To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

rchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]

The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.

To restore to use as money; as, to remonetize silver.

A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent…

Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak.

The money or other thing repaid.

To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.