Word Meanings - BEACONAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

Related words: (words related to BEACONAGE)

• 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.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• BEACON
  baken, beken, sign, signal, D. baak, OHG. bouhhan, G. bake; of 1. A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay. 2. A signal or conspicuous
• 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
• 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
• MAINTENANCE
  An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap. (more info) 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance;
• BEACONLESS
  Having no beacon.
• 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.
• 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.
• BEACONAGE
  Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• 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