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ere in those countries commonly made use of to purchase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints. A. Smith.

One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. [R.]

The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.

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

Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon.

A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [Obs. or R.]

Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.

A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.

Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.

Bribed. [R.] Fuller.

Destitute of money; not rich. [Written also unmonied.] Shenstone.

in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

A loan of money.

ount or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

lic offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

rowth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.