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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Money \Mon"ey\, n.; pl {Moneys}. [OE. moneie, OF moneie, F. monnaie fr L. moneta. See {Mint} place where coin is made {Mind}, and cf {Moidore}, {Monetary}.] 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found necessary . . . to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were 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. 2. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it in a comprehensive sense any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling. Note: Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium of effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of which values are reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel blades, etc., is in common language, called their money. 3. In general, wealth; property; as he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make or lose, money. The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. --1 Tim vi 10 (Rev. Ver. ). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Money \Mon"ey\, v. t. To supply with money. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Maundy coins \Maundy coins\ or money \money\ . Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: {To turn one's coat}, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. {To turn one's goods} or {money}, and the like to exchange in the course of trade to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade {To turn one's hand to}, to adapt or apply one's self to to engage in {To turn out}. a To drive out to expel; as to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. -- Shak. b to put to pasture, as cattle or horses. c To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. d To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence to produce. e To cause to cease, or to put out by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like as to turn out the lights. {To turn over}. a To change or reverse the position of to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over b To transfer; as to turn over business to another hand. c To read or examine, as a book, while turning the leaves. ``We turned o'er many books together.'' --Shak. d To handle in business; to do business to the amount of as he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] {To turn over a new leaf}. See under {Leaf}. {To turn tail}, to run away to retreat ignominiously. {To turn the back}, to flee; to retreat. {To turn the back on} or {upon}, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. {To turn the corner}, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence to begin to improve, or to succeed. {To turn the die} or {dice}, to change fortune. {To turn the edge} or {point of}, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. {To turn the head} or {brain of}, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of as a little success turned his head. {To turn the scale} or {balance}, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. {To turn the stomach of}, to nauseate; to sicken. {To turn the tables}, to reverse the chances or conditions of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. {To turn tippet}, to make a change. [Obs.] --B. Jonson {To turn to} {profit, advantage}, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. {To turn up}. a To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top as to turn up the trump. b To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc c To give an upward curve to to tilt; as to turn up the nose. {To turn upon}, to retort; to throw back as to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. {To turn upside down}, to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: money n 1: the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" 2: wealth reckoned in terms of money: "all his money is in real estate" 3: the official currency issued by a government or national bank; "he changed his money into francs" From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Money Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob's purchase of a field at Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for "an hundred pieces of money"=an hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.), i.e., probably pieces of money, as is supposed, bearing the figure of a lamb. The history of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all their internal as well as foreign transactions. There were in common use in trade silver pieces of a definite weight, shekels, half-shekels, and quarter-shekels. But these were not properly coins, which are pieces of metal authoritatively issued, and bearing a stamp. Of the use of coined money we have no early notice among the Hebrews. The first mentioned is of Persian coinage, the daric (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70) and the 'adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric (q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of Cyrus. As long as the Jews, after the Exile, lived under Persian rule they used Persian coins. These gave place to Greek coins when Palestine came under the dominion of the Greeks (B.C. 331), the coins consisting of gold, silver, and copper pieces. The usual gold pieces were staters (q.v.), and the silver coins tetradrachms and drachms. In the year B.C. 140, Antiochus VII. gave permission to Simon the Maccabee to coin Jewish money. Shekels (q.v.) were then coined bearing the figure of the almond rod and the pot of manna. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
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