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A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather b…

The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

of to all danger. Macaulay. The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty. A. Hamilton.

ly, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble. A coin that bears the figure of an angel. Shak.

A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.

The coincidence of parts that come in contact.

A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value. Camden.

A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.…

ommunicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).

To cover or wrap up; to conceal. Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses. Shak.

To coin. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

means of repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less value than the monetary unit. -- Fractional distillation (Chem.), a process of distillation so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boi…

A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes.

A French coin. See Franc.

The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.