money 
itself. Money In this sense is not often used in the plural, 
unless to indicate sums of money or different systems of 
money or coinage. See def. 4. 
Importune him for my moneys, Shak.,'f. of A., ii. 1. 16. 
Every lady should meet her lord, 
When he is newly come frae sea ; 
Some wi' hawks, and some wi' hounds, 
And other some wi' gay inonie. 
The Kniyhfs Ghost (Child's Ballads, I. 210). 
What moneys I have is at your disposing; and upon 
twelve I will meet you at the palace wilh it. 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 2. 
There are several different sorts of paper money; but the 
circulating notes of. banks and bankers are the species 
which is best known, which seems best adapted for this 
purpose. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, II. ii. 
Money is bought and sold like other things, whenever 
other things are bought and sold for money. Whoever 
sells corn, or tallow, or cotton, buys money. 
J. 8. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. viii. f 2. 
Our ancestors in Maryland and Virginia, before the revo- 
lutionary war, and for some time after, in default of gold 
and silver, used tobacco as money, made it money by law, 
reckoned the fees and salaries of government officers in 
tobacco, and collected the public taxes in that article. 
Cye. of Pol. Set., II. 879. 
Money is the medium of exchange. Whatever performs 
this function, does this work, is money, no matter what it 
is made of, and no matter how it came to be a medium at 
first, or why it continues to be such. 
Walker, Pol. Econ., III. iii. 144. 
With the aid of money all the difficulties of barter dis. 
appear ; for money consists of some commodity which all 
people in the country are willing to receive in exchange, 
and which can be divided into quantities of any amount. 
Almost any commodity might be used as money in the 
absence of a better material. In agricultural countries 
corn was so used in former times. 
Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 104. 
3. Property, in whatever form, which is read- 
ily convertible into or serves the same pur- 
poses as money as above defined; available 
assets; wealth: as, a man of money, 
The moneye on this molde that men so taste holden, 
Tel me to whom that tresour appendeth ? 
Piers Plowman (A), i. 43. 
Money can neither open new avenues to pleasure, nor 
block up the passages of anguish. Johnson. 
Money, taken in the largest sense, as the representative 
of all kinds of property, is one of the greatest means of 
human education. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 266. 
4. The currency of any country or nation; a 
denomination or designation of value, whether 
represented in the coinage or not : in this sense 
also used in the plural : as, English money; the 
weights and moneys of different nations; a 
money of account. 
For right als thai boght ihesu tie 
For thritty penis of thaire mone, 
So war thai sold to thaire enmy 
Euer thritty lews for a peny. 
Holy Hood (E. E. T. S.), p. 89. 
Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits, 
as moneys are for values. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 235. 
5. A way or line of investing money. [Colloq. 
or vulgar.] 
I Bell dry fruit, sir, in February and March, because I 
must be doing something, and green fruit 's not my money 
then. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 95. 
Acknowledgment money. See acknowledgment. Add- 
ed money. See add. Bent money, bowed money, a 
coin purposely bent and given as a love-token, or in certain 
cases used as a votive offering. Such coins seem to have 
been bent to preveut their use as money. 
I bequeathe him my rope of bowed nobles that I hang ray 
great whistle containing CCC angels. 
Will of Sir Edward Howard, 1612, in Archseologia, 
[XXXVIII. 870. 
Cargo money or Guinea money, a peculiar species of 
porcelain shell used as money in Guinea. China money, 
the name given (in the provincial form chany or " chains 
money) to tokens of porcelain issued by the Pinxton China 
Works in East Derbyshire. They were oval, plano-convex 
in section, and bore on the convex side their value in 
large figures, as 6. , Is. See china-token. Coat-and-con- 
duct money. See coats. Conscience money. See eon- 
science. Covered money, a technical phrase used in 
United States legislation and administration for money 
which has been deposited in the Treasury in the usual 
manner, and which can be drawn out only to pay an appro- 
priation made by Congress. Creation money, effec- 
tive money, fairy money. See the qualifying words. 
Flat money, paper currency issued by a government 
as money, but not based on coin or bullion ; paper cur- 
rency containing no promise to pay coin, and therefore 
not convertible into coin. [Colloq.] 
This overflowing deluge of flat money alarmed and dis- 
sipated the old-fashioned gold and silver coins of our pro- 
genitors. The Century, XXXVI. 783. 
Fiddler's money. See fiddler. For love or money. 
See lovel. For money, for cash : on the stock exchange, 
in the case of a contract for money, the securities sold are 
transferred immediately to a designated name, and the 
broker for the buyer pays for them : distinguished from 
for the account (which see, under account). For my 
moneyt, to my mind ; what I prefer. 
A horn for my money. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 3. 68. 
Guinea money. See cargo money. Hammered money. 
See hammer!. Hard money, metallic money; coin. 
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I du believe hard coin the stuff 
Fer 'lectioneers to spout on ; 
The people 's oilers soft enough 
To make hard money out on. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., vi. 
Imprest money. See imprest?. Klmmertdge-coal 
money, small circular pieces of shale two or three inches 
in diameter and a quarter of an inch thick, bearing the 
marks of having been turned in a lathe, found near Hmed- 
more in the parish of Great Kimmeridge, in Dorset, Eng- 
land, in the soil, two or three feet from the surface. 
It is considered probable that the Kimeridffe coal-money 
may be simply the refuse from which rings or armlets have 
been turned in a lathe, or they may be the bases of vases 
or bowls. 
//. B. Woodward, Geol. of Eng. and Wales, 2d ed., p. 336. 
Lawful, lucky, maundy, milled money. See the quali- 
fying words. Money makes the mare go. See nui. 
Money of account. See account. Money of neces- 
sity. See necessity. Money On call. See caul. paper 
money. See def. 2. Pot Of money, a large amount of 
money ; a heavy sum. [Colloq.] Present money. Same 
as ready money. 
I am not f urnish'd with the present money. 
Shak., C. of E., iv. 1. 34. 
Ready money, money paid or ready to be paid at the time 
a transaction is completed; cash: also used adjectively: 
as, a ready-money purchase. 
Hee is your slaue while you pay him ready Money, but 
If nee once befriend you, your Tyrant, and you had better 
deserue his hate then his trust. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Shop-keeper. 
Let 's e'en compound, and for the Present Live, 
"1'is all the Ready Many Fate can give. 
Cowley, Pindaric Odes, viii. 6. 
Right moneyt, money paid as the condition or consider- 
ation of acquiring a right to the purchase of lands. 
As no right money is to be paid for these lands, and quit- 
rent of two shillings sterling a hundred, demandable some 
years hence only, it is highly presumable that they will al- 
ways be held upon a more desirable footing than where 
both these are laid on with a very heavy hand. 
Washington, quoted in H. B. Adams, Washington's 
[Interest in Western Lands. 
Soft money, paper money. [Slang, U. S.] To coin 
money. See cw'ni. Token money. See token. To 
make money, to gain or procure money; become rich. 
To take eggs for money. See eggi . Value of money. 
See the quotation. 
It will be well to deal with a use of the phrase valve of 
money which has led to much confusion. In mercantile 
phraseology the value of money means the interest charged 
for the use of loanable capital. Thus, when the market 
rate of interest is high, money is said to be dear, when it 
is low, money is regarded as cheap. Whatever may be the 
force of the reasons in favour of this use, It is only men- 
tioned here for the purpose of excluding it. For our pres- 
ent subject, the value of a thing is what it will exchange 
for ; the value of money is what money will exchange for, 
or its purchasing power. If prices are low, money will buy 
much of other things, and is of high value. The value of 
money is inversely as general prices, falling as they rise 
and rising as they fall. Encyc. Brit., XVI. 721. 
White money, silver coin ; also, coin of base metal imi- 
tating silver. 
Here's a seal'd bag of a hundred; which indeed 
Are counters all, only some sixteen groats 
Of white money i' the mouth on 't. 
Beau, and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, ii. 1. 
(See also earnest-money, head-money, light-money, pin- 
money, ship-money. } = Syn. 1 and 2. Money, Cash. Money 
was primarily minted metal, as copper, brass, silver, gold, 
but later any circulating medium that took the place of 
such coins : as, wampum was used as money in trade with 
the Indians ; paper money. Cash is ready money, primari- 
ly coin, but now also anything that is accepted as money : 
it is opposed to credit. 
money (mun'i), v. t. [< money, n.] 1. To sup- 
ply with money. 
Knaves have friends, especially when they are well 
monied. Greene, Conny-Catching, ii. 
I know, Melitus, he out of his own store 
Hath monied Casselane the general. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, i. 1. 
2. To convert into money; exchange for money. 
[Rare.] 
Our prey was rich and great. 
... a hundred flftie mares, 
All sorrell, . . . and these soone-wionwd wares, 
We draue into Neleius' towne, faire Pylos, all by night. 
Chapman, Iliad, xi. 690. 
moneyage (mun'i-aj), n. [< OF. moneage, mon- 
neage, moiiaage, monetage, F. monnayage = Sp. 
monedaje, minting, = Pg. moedagem = It. tnone- 
taggio, < ML. *monetaticum, also monetagimn 
(after OF.), a land-tax, mint, < L. moneta, mint, 
money: see money. ~\ 1. A mintage; the right 
of coining or minting money. Cowell. 2. A 
tribute formerly paid in England by tenants to 
their lord, in return for his undertaking not 
to debase the money which he had the right to 
coin. Also monetagiuM , 
Moneyage was also a general land-tax of the same nature, 
levied by Ihe two first Norman kings, and abolished by the 
charter of Henry I. Hume, Hist. Eng., App. 2. 
money-bag (mun'i-bag), . 1 . A bag f orrnoney ; 
a purse. 2. A large purse. 
moneybags (mun'i-bagz), n. A wealthy per- 
son. [Slang.] 
money-bill (mun 'i-bil), . 1 . A bill for raising 
or granting money, (a) In the British Parliament, a 
moneyless 
bill for granting aids and supplies to the crown. Such 
bills originate in the House of Commons, and are rarely 
altered substantially in the House of Lords. Sir E. May. 
(b) In the United States Congress, a bill or project of law 
for raising revenue and making grants or appropriations 
of the public money. The Constitution of the United 
States, Article I., Section VII., provides that "All bills for 
raising revenue shall originate in the Houseof Representa- 
tives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amend- 
ments, as on other bills." 
money-box (mun'i-boks), . A box for holding 
money or for receiving contributions of money. 
money-broker (mun'i-bro"ker), n. A broker 
who deals in money. 
money-changer (mun'i-chan"jer), >i. A chan- 
ger of money ; a money-broker. 
money-corn (mun'i-korn), n. Same as mn-ng- 
corn. 
money-COWTy (mun'i-kou''ri), . A shell, Cy- 
prcea moneta, extensively used as money or cur- 
rency in parts of Asia, Africa, Polynesia, etc. 
See cut under cowry. 
money-dealer (mun'i-de*ler), . A dealer 
in money; a money-changer. 
money-drawer (mun'i-dra"er), w. A shop- 
keeper's drawer for the keeping of money re- 
ceived or used in the course of business; a till. 
money-dropper (mun 'i-drop"er), . A sharper 
who drops a piece of money on the street and 
pretends to have found it, in order to dupe the 
person to whom he addresses himself. 
A rascally money-dropper. 
Smollett, Roderick Random, xv. 
moneyed (mun'id), a. [Also monied; < money 
+ -co 2 .] 1 . Supplied with money ; rich in mon- 
ey; having money; able to command money ; 
wealthy; affluent. 
A means to invite monitd men tolend to the merchants, 
for the continuing and quickening of trade. 
Bacon, Usury (ed. 1887). 
When I think of the host of pleasant, monied, well-bred 
young gentlemen, who do a little learning and much boat- 
ing by Cam and Isis, the vision is a pleasant one. 
Huxley, Universities. 
2. Consisting of money ; in the f onn of money : 
as, moneyed capital. 
If exportation will not balance Importation, away must 
your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. 
Locke. 
Moneyed corporation. See corporation. 
moneyer (mun'i-er),. [Formerly also monier; 
< ME. monyour, ( OF. monier, monnier, monoier, 
monnoyeur, F. monnayeur = Sp. monedero = Pg. 
moedeiro = It. nwnetario, monetiere, < LL. mone- 
tarius, a mint-master, minter: see monetary, 
and cf. minter, ult. a doublet of moneyer.] 1. 
One who coins money; a minter; a mint-master. 
Impairment in allay can only happen either by the dis- 
honesty of the moneyers or minters or by counterfeiting 
the coin. Sir M. Hale, Hist. Pleas of the Crown, xviii. 
They (Greek coins] bear magistrates' names on both 
sides ; that on the obverse, in the nominative case, is the 
moneyer' 8 name. B. V. Head, Historia Numoruin, p. 265. 
2. A banker; one who deals in money. Johnson. 
But se what gold han vserers, 
And silver eke in her garners, 
Taylagiers, and these monyouri. 
Bom. of the Base, 1. 6811. 
Company of moneyers, certain officers of the British 
mint, under whose responsibility and superintendence 
the various moneys of the realm were manufactured. 
Their duties were transferred in 1837 to other officers under 
the more Immediate appointment of the master of the 
mint. Imp. Diet. 
money-flower (mun'i-flou'er), n. The common 
honesty, Lunaria annua (L. Mennis). 
mpney-grubber (mun'i-grub"er), n. An avari- 
cious or rapacious person. Lamb. [Colloq.] 
money-jobber (mivn'i-job*'er), n. A dealer in 
money or coin. 
A public bank by this expedient might cut off much of 
the dealings of private bankers and money-jobbers. 
Hume, Essays, ii. 3. 
money-land (mun'i-land),)i. In Zoic: (a) Land 
articled or devised to be sold and turned into 
money, in equity reputed as money. (6) Money 
articled or bequeathed to be invested in land, 
in equity having many of the qualities of real 
estate. [Rare in both senses.] 
money-lender (mun'i-len"der), n. One who 
lends money on interest. 
moneyless (mun'i-les), a. [Formerly moniless; 
< ME. moneyeles, monelees ; < money + -less.] 
1. Without money; poor; impecunious. 
Meteles and moneyles on Maluerne hulles. 
Piers Plowman (C). x. 295. 
Poore thon art, and knowne to be 
Even as monUesse as he. 
Herrick, To his Saviour, a Child, a Present by a Child. 
His hope was to unite the rich of both classes in defence 
against the landless and moneyless multitudes. 
Frmide, Cresar, p. 142. 
