Word Meanings - MONEYAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.

Related words: (words related to MONEYAGE)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• MINTAGE
  1. The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling. 2. The duty paid to the mint for coining.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• KINGSHIP
  The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty. Landor.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• KINGSTON VALVE
  A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• KINGSTON; KINGSTONE
  The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.
• KINGSTON METAL
  . An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.
• COINAGE
  1. The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. 3. The cost or expense of coining money. 4. The act or process
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• NORMAN
  A wooden bar, or iron pin. W. C. Russell.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• PREVENTER
  An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. Preventer bolts, or Preventer plates , fixtures connected with preventers to reënforce other rigging. -- Preventer stay. Same as Preventer, 3. (more info) 1. One who goes before; one who forestalls or
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• UNKINGSHIP
  The quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy. Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down. Evelyn.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• RECOINAGE
  1. The act of coining anew. 2. That which is coined anew.