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the number three in general. [I] kept my chamber a leash of days. B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. Tennyson.

d; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened. The objection lessens much, and comes to no more than this: there was one witness of no good reputation. Atterbury.

tiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water. His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower. Shak.

make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. Dryden.

Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. Ye can not serve God and Mammon. Matt. vi. 24.

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

marketed their crops. Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth. Southey.

To own; to posses. [Obs.] The wealth That the world masters. Shak.

One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]

Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good. Shak. Mine dial, a form of magnetic compass used by miners. -- Mine pig, pig iron made wholly from ore; in distinction from cinder pig, which is made from ore mixed with forge or mill cinder. Raymond.

A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money. The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. -- Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells…

One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.

The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.

Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon.

One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. " A bilious old nabob." Macaulay.

In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax.

ds grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.

] I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths. Laud.