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- Dollar - n. - 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.
- Dollar - n. - 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.
- Dollar - n. - A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.
- Dollar - n. - The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.
- Dollardee - n. - A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.
- Exchange - v. i. - To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.
- Tael - n. - A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
- Levy - n. - A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
- Milreis - n. - A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.
- Starfish - n. - The dollar fish, or butterfish.
- A - - In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.
- Break - v. t. - To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
- Shiner - n. - Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
- Lafayette - n. - The dollar fish.