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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.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

res or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

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…

ench king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

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.