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To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.

An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent

fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.

To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol and deify the pope. Bacon.

To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money. They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company. R. Cobden.

the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.

g; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.

A petty money of accounts of Persia.

in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.

The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.

One who disburses money.

r) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. Shak.

To disclaim; to expel. [Obs.] "Money did love disclame." Spenser.

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. Discount only unexceptionable paper. Walsh.

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.

A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry.

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt est…

who, or that which, causes division. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. Money, the great divider of the world. Swift.

on; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.