noun.
Gold or silver in the mass; gold or silver smelted and not perfectly refined, or refined but in bars, ingots, or any uncoined form, as plate.
noun.
Uncurrent coin; coin received only at its metallic value.
noun.
Figuratively, gold, as a sordid thing; mere wealth; mammon.
noun.
A mint or assay-office.
noun.
A boss; a stud; a showy metallic ornament either of gold or in imitation of gold, as a button, stud, hook, clasp, buckle, and the like.
noun.
A fringe of thick twisted cords, such as will hang heavily.
noun.
In glass-making, that part of the spheroidal mass of glass which has been attached to the pontil, after being blown and while undergoing the process of fattening into a sheet. When the tube is detached, it is called the bull's-eye (which see).
noun.
A measure of capacity (of salt).