Word Meanings - LICKPENNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A devourer or absorber of money. "Law is a lickpenny." Sir W. Scott.

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• LICKPENNY
  A devourer or absorber of money. "Law is a lickpenny." Sir W. Scott.
• 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.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• 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
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• DEVOURER
  One who, or that which, devours.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• ABSORBER
  One who, or that which, absorbs.
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• MONEYWORT
  A trailing plant , with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
• MONEY-MAKING
  The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• UNMONEYED
  Destitute of money; not rich. Shenstone.
• MAUNDY COINS; MAUNDY MONEY
  Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.
• BLOOD MONEY
  1. Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. 2. Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for