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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.

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.

other for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.

- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).

Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. Macaulay.

ied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc. Bouvier. -- Resulting use (Law), a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it. Bouvier.

To repay; as, to return borrowed money.

Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.

Gold and silver, or money. [Cant] W. Wagstaffe. As long as the rhino lasted. Marryat.

possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to Ant: poor. "Rich merchants." Chaucer. The rich [person] hath many friends. Prov. xiv. 20. As a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher. Milton.

That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke.

A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. His moldy money ! half a dozen riders. J. Fletcher.

One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.