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. ).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Money \Mon"ey\, v. t. To supply with money. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)