Dollar

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dollar \dol"lar\, n. [D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an
     abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first
     coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St.
     Joachim, in Bohemia. See {Dale}.]
     1.
        (a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25


            grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is,
            having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
        (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22
            grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is,
            having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths
            fine. It is no longer coined.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Previous to 1837 the silver dollar had a larger amount
           of alloy, but only the same amount of silver as now,
           the total weight being 416 grains. The gold dollar as a
           distinct coin was first made in 1849. The eagles, half
           eagles, and quarter eagles coined before 1834 contained
           24.75 grains of gold and 2.25 grains of alloy for each
           dollar.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A coin of the same general weight and value as the United
        States silver dollar, though differing slightly in
        different countries, formerly current in Mexico, Canada,
        parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other
        European countries.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     3. The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in
        value in different countries, commonly employed in the
        United States and a number of other countries, including
        Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean,
        Liberia, and several others.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     {Chop dollar}. See under 9th {Chop}.
  
     {Dollar fish} (Zool.), a fish of the United States coast
        ({Stromateus triacanthus}), having a flat, roundish form
        and a bright silvery luster; -- called also {butterfish},
        and {Lafayette}. See {Butterfish}.
  
     {Trade dollar}, a silver coin formerly made at the United
        States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at
        home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of
        alloy.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dollar
       n 1: the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100
            cents
       2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: {dollar bill},
           {one dollar bill}, {buck}, {clam}]
       3: a United States coin worth one dollar; "the dollar coin has
          never been popular in the United States"
       4: a symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the
          almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him"
          [syn: {dollar mark}, {dollar sign}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "dollar":
     C, C-note, Deutschmark, G, G-note, Mark, Reichsmark, afghani, anna,
     baht, bawbee, bill, bone, buck, cartwheel, cent, centavo, centime,
     century, conto, copper, crown, dime, dollar bill, dong, farthing,
     fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars,
     five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver,
     florin, four bits, fourpence, fourpenny, franc, frogskin, grand,
     groat, guilder, guinea, gulden, half G, half a C, half crown,
     half dollar, half grand, halfpenny, hundred-dollar bill, iron man,
     kip, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, mag, meg, mill, milreis, mite,
     monkey, new pence, nickel, np, p, pence, penny, peseta, pie,
     piece of eight, pistareen, pony, pound, quarter, quid, rand,
     red cent, rial, rock, ruble, rupee, sawbuck, shekel, shilling,
     silver dollar, sixpence, skin, smacker, sol, sou, stiver,
     ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars,
     thousand-dollar bill, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence,
     tuppence, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits,
     two-dollar bill, two-spot, twopence, won, yard, yen
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  dollar
       
          $
       
          Common: {ITU-T}: dollar sign.  Rare: currency symbol;
          buck; cash; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo
          of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; {INTERCAL}: big money.
       
          (1995-03-06)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DOLLAR, money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of one 
  hundred cents, or tenth part of an eagle. 
       2. It weighs four hundred and twelve and a half grains. Of one thousand 
  parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of 
  January 18, 1837, ss. 8 & 9, 4 Sharsw. Cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523, 4; 
  Wright, R. 162. 
       3. In all computations at the custom-house, the specie dollar of Sweden 
  and Norway shall be estimated at one hundred and six cents. The specie 
  dollar of Denmark,  at one hundred and five cents. Act of May 22, 1846.