MONDAY

The second day of the week is so called, and means, literally, the day of the moon. Its equivalents in Fr. and Germ, are respectively Lundi and Montag, sign i fying also day of the moon. MONEY.* In Political Economy, the name given to the commodity adopted to serve as the marchandise bannale, or universal equivalent of all other commodities, and for which individualsces. readily exchange their surplus products or servi * Etymologists differ respecting the derivation of the word money. Some contend tint it cornea from monere (to admonish, to inform), became th« itamp impre ed on coin* indicates their weight and finene . Others contend that it originate! in the circumstance of silver being originally coined at Rome, in the temple of admonishing Juno, or Juno Afoneta. 765 [s. 779]