maraud (marad)

i. [ But war 's the Borderers' game. Their gain, their glory, their delight, To sleep the day, maraud the night. Scott , Marmion, v. 4. IMG:content-0225.png:[blocks in formation] Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders .. Long fellow , Skeleton in Armor, vi. =Syn. Freebooter , etc. See robber . maravedi (mar-a-vā'di), n. [= F. maravedi , maramedi (Cotgrave), maravedí (=Pg. ma ravedim ), also mora bit i no (= Pg. mar a bit i no ), a coin so called, Murābit in , the name of a Moorish dynasty (Sp., with the Ar. art., Almora vides ) which reigned in Spain at the close of the 11th and in the first half of the 12th century, during which time the coin was first struck at Cordova; pl. of morābit , a hermit, marabout: see Marabout.] 1. A gold coin struck in Spain by ◉◉ IMG:content-0226.jpg:[blocks in formation] the Moorish dynasty of Almoravides in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It weighed about 60 grains.-2. In later times, the smallest denomination of Spanish money, varying in value from a little le to a little more than half an English farthing or quarter of a United States cent. As a copper coin the maravedi circulated till the end of the eighteenth century; as a money of account it was abolished in 1848. - Not worth a maravedi, worthle .