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Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

t; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.

To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic] Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

ed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.

h title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. Ezek. xlv. 12.

le, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet. [Written also mangold-wurzel.]

ual to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.

pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. Golden marcasite, tin. [Obs.]

near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. -- Marsh marigold. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Marsh pennywort (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; - - called also water pennywort. -- Marsh quail (Zoöl.), the…

To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart. [Obs.] To sell and mart your officer for gold To undeservers. Shak.

The marigold; a blossom of the marigold. Shak.

A large quantity; a sum. All the mass of gold that comes into Spain. Sir W. Raleigh. He had spent a huge mass of treasure. Sir J. Davies.

A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.