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Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U. S.]

To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.

A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.

One who receives the profits, as of an estate.

another for money borrowed, to be held by him until the debt is paid out of the rents and profits. -- To hold in pledge, to keep as security. -- To put in pledge, to pawn; to give as security.

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. "Plotting an unprofitable crime." Dryden. "Plotting now the fall of others." Milton

Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous. [Colloq.] "For the sake of getting something plummy." G. Eliot.

To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. U. S. Grant.

gation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.

With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.

s philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano. practise

A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church.

capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.

The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment. The primitias of your parsonage. Spenser.

To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.

Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.

Profitable; advantageous; useful. [Obs.] Harvey.

Benefit; profit; good; advantage. [Obs.] That shall be for your hele and for your prow. Chaucer.