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&fist; Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium of
effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of which values are
reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper rings, quills of salt or of gold
dust, shovel blades, etc., is, in common language, called their
money.

3. In general, wealth; property; as, he has
much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose,
money.

The love of money is a root of all kinds of
evil.

Money bill (Legislation), a bill for
raising revenue. -- Money broker, a broker
who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills
of exchange; -- called also money changer. --
Money cowrie (Zoöl.), any one of
several species of Cypræa (esp. C. moneta)
formerly much used as money by savage tribes. See Cowrie.
-- Money of account, a denomination of value
used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an
equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account
in the United States, but not a coin.


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