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An excessive 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.

The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale.

premely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.

t tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

lf or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: .. not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9.

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]

A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc. Weale.

That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

s, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.

Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.

n or despondency. Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. Burke.

nace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. -- Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.

A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Wright.

Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing. The capacity of blessing the people. Alex. Hamilton. A cause with such capacities endued. Blackmore.

An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.

hosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. The common wealth is sick of their own choice. Shak.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. Weale.