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That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. Loan office. (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

ck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of unce…

s and duties, etc.] Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in whatever form paid.

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). Spelman.

In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.

The duty paid to the mint for coining.

n Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom. [Obs.]

ressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi. Blackstone. They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition. Landor. Modus operandi ( Etym: [L.], manner of operating.

ate in money matters. -- Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid. -- A piece of money, a single coin. -- Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash. -- To make money, to gain or acquire money or property; to make a profit in dealings.…

A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume.

Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine. Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.

A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. [Russia] Brande & C.

evious time at the market price. Such options are privileges for which a consideration is paid. -- Local option. See under Local.

tic] Chaucer. Shak. Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. Milton.

That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of Ant: income. Lowell.

That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected. A. Hamilton.

Had or held under obligation of paying; due. There is more owing her than is paid. Shak.