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• Dollar

  ·noun The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money valu...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• dollar

  n. See Holy dollar. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Rix-dollar

  ·noun A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, ·etc., va...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• dollar-bird

  n. name given to the Roller (q.v.). See quotations. 1827. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of L...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dollar-fish

  n. a name often given formerly tothe John Dory (q.v.), from the mark on its side. See quotation, 18...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Holy dollar

  n. punning name for a dollar outof which a Dump (q.v.) had been punched. 1822. `Hobart Town Gazett...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-dollar

  n. See quotation;and see Dump and Holy Dollar. 1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' c. iii. p. 131: «T...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dollar mark

  The origin of this sign to represent the dollar has been the cause of much discussion of late in t...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• rix-dollar

  A silver coin common in northern Europe, of the average value of 4 s. 6 d. ...

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