Word Meanings - GELD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Money; tribute; compensation; ransom. Note: This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc.

Related words: (words related to GELD)

• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• IMPOSING
  1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart. 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 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
• IMPOSTURY
  Imposture. Fuller.
• IMPOSE
  To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
• TRIBUTER
  One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value. Note: Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive
• IMPOSINGLY
  In an imposing manner.
• IMPOSTROUS
  Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.
• IMPOSTHUME
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
• BOOKSHELF
  A shelf to hold books.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• SOWDANESSE
  A sultaness. Chaucer.
• RETRIBUTER
  One who makes retribution.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.