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thers; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

Silver, or money. [Archaic]

An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain. [Scot.] Arles penny, earnest money given to servants. Kersey.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

To settle or adjust an account. Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed. Arbuthnot.

or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.

e method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

rsion. See Torsion Balance. -- Balance of trade (Pol. Econ.), an equilibrium between the money values of the exports and imports of a country; or more commonly, the amount required on one side or the other to make such an equilibrium. -- Balance valve, a valve whose surfaces are so arranged that the fluid pressure te…

Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert.

A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]

An establishment for 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…

ividually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.