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Brewer's: Flush of Money
Full of money. Similarly A flush of water means a sudden and full flow of water. (Latin, flux-us.) “Strut was not very flush in [the] ready.” —Dr.Arbuthnot. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Mise-money
An honorarium given by the people of Wales to a new “Prince of Wales” on his entrance upon his principality. At Chester a mise-book is kept, in which every town and village is rated to…Brewer's: Monkey's Money
I will pay you in monkey's money (“en monnaic de singe”)—in goods, in personal work, in mumbling and grimace. The French had a law that when a monkey passed the Petit Pont, of Paris, if it…Brewer's: Nail-money
Six crowns given to the “roy des harnoys” for affixing the arms of a knight to the pavilion. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Nail fixed in the TempleNail A…Annual Money Leaders
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(Encyclopedia) Galiani, FerdinandoGaliani, Ferdinandofārdēnänˈdō gälyäˈnē [key], 1728–87, Italian economist, educated for the church. As a very young man he wrote Della moneta [on money] (1750),…ultraviolet radiation
(Encyclopedia) ultraviolet radiation, invisible electromagnetic radiation between visible violet light and X rays; it ranges in wavelength from about 400 to 4 nanometers and in frequency from about…currency
(Encyclopedia) currency: see money.compulsive gambling
(Encyclopedia) compulsive gambling or pathological gambling, a psychological disorder characterized by a persistent inability to resist the impulse to gamble. The disorder is progressive and…dole
(Encyclopedia) dole, distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the…Trending
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