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A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Concurrence.

The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.

practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.…

proportion to; befitting. [Archaic] He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (wav…

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

rly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.

ng to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.

Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.

A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.

The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.

The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.

To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. -- Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion, n.

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe. Simmonds.

n expressed in the coin or standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New Y…