monetize

t. [Lat. moneta =money; -ize.] To give a standard value to in the coinage of a country; to form into coin. mon-ey, *mon-eie, *mon-y ( pl . mon-eğş, mon-leş), s. [O. Fr. moncie (Fr. monnaie ), from Lat. moneta =a mint, money; Sp. moneda ; Port. moeda ; Ital. moneta .] [MINT, 8.) 1. Coin; gold, silver, or other metal stamped by public authority, and used as the medium of exchange; stamped metal which may be given or taken in exchange for goods or commodities. 2. The standard by which the value of all other commodities is measured; the medium by which they are exchanged, bearing certain marks by which it is recognized; an equivalent for commodities; a circulating medium. Bank-notes, letters of credit, bills, notes of hand, ., all representing coin, are money, as paper money. E entially money is a ticket or order entitling the holder to receive a quantity of any commodity or other service equal in value to the amount indicated on the face of the order. Money is mentioned as a medium of commerce in Genesis xxiii., 1860 B. C., when Abraham purchased a field as a sepulcher for Sarah. The coinage of money is ascribed to the Lydians. Moneta was the name given to their silver by the Romans, it having been coined in the temple of Juno-Moneta, 269 B. C. Money was made of differ ent metals, and even of leather and other articles, both in ancient and modern times. It was made of pasteboard by the Holland ers so late as 1574. 3. Wealth. "Get money; still get money, boys; No matter by what means," Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humor, ii. 3. 4. A denomination or designation of value, whether and moneys of a country. IMG:content-1346.png:[blocks in formation] Zool., .: Cypræa moneta. It is a native of the Asiatic Archipelago and the Pacific Islands, specially of the Philippine and Maldive Islands, constituting the chief article of export from the latter group. They are used as currency through. out India and other parts of Southern Asia, and in Africa, spreading probably from the former to the latter continent at a remote period of antiquity. Cowries constitute part also of the Indian circulation. The number given for a pice varies. Herklots stated the number at from eighty to a hundred. money-dropper, subst. A sharper who scrapes dupe by asking him about a picuaintancewithhich he pretends to have just picked up, and thus gains his confidence and companionship.