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- Interest - n. - To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.
- Interest - n. - To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.
- Interest - n. - To cause or permit to share.
- Interest - n. - Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.
- Interest - n. - Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.
- Interest - n. - Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
- Interest - n. - Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.
- Interest - n. - Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.
- Interest - n. - The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.
- Interested - imp. & p. p. - of Interest
- Interested - v. t. - Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.
- Interested - v. t. - Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
- Interestedness - n. - The state or quality of being interested; selfishness.
- Interesting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Interest
- Interesting - a. - Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news.
- Interestingly - adv. - In an interesting manner.
- Interestingness - n. - The condition or quality of being interesting.
- Favoritism - n. - The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
- Reversionary - a. - Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.
- Side - n. - The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
- Common - v. - Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
- Hire - n. - To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
- Assignment - n. - A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
- Principal - n. - A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
- Sacrifice - n. - Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
- Equal - a. - Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.
- Mont de piete - - One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.
- Bottomry - n. - A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
- Eye-saint - n. - An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.
- Glamour - n. - Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
- Adlegation - n. - A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
- Clan - n. - A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
- Remainder - n. - An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder.
- Right - a. - That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
- Outsider - n. - One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
- Self-seeking - a. - Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.
- Fund - n. - The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
- Indifferency - n. - Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference.
- Coupon - n. - A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
- Take - v. t. - To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
- Rate - n. - That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
- Figurehead - n. - A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
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- G1155 δανείζω - 1155 δανείζω - ΔΑΝΕΊΖΩ - - daneízō - dan-ide'-zo - from δάνειον; to loan on interest; reflexively, to borrow:--borrow, lend. - Verb - greek
- H4768 מַרְבִּית - 4768 מַרְבִּית - מַרְבִּית - - marbîyth - mar-beeth' - from רָבָה; a multitude; also offspring; specifically interest (on capital); greatest part, greatness, increase, multitude. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4855 מַשָּׁא - 4855 מַשָּׁא - מַשָּׁא - - mashshâʼ - mash-shaw' - from נָשָׁה; a loan; by implication, interest on adebt; exaction, usury. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G3199 μέλω - 3199 μέλω - ΜΈΛΩ - - mélō - mel'-o - a primary verb; to be of interest to, i.e. to concern (only third person singular present indicative used impersonally, it matters):--(take) care. - Verb - greek
- H5383 נָשָׁה - 5383 נָשָׁה - נָשָׁה - - nâshâh - naw-shaw' - a primitive root (rather identical with נָשָׁה, in the sense of נָשָׁא); to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or interest; creditor, exact, extortioner, lend, usurer, lend on (taker on) usury. - Verb - heb
- H5391 נָשַׁךְ - 5391 נָשַׁךְ - נָשַׁךְ - - nâshak - naw-shak' - a primitive root; to strike with a sting (as a serpent); figuratively, to oppress with interest on a loan; bite, lend upon usury. - Verb - heb
- H5378 נָשָׁא - 5378 נָשָׁא - נָשָׁא - - nâshâʼ - naw-shaw' - a primitive root (perhaps identical with נָשָׁא, through the idea of imposition); to lend on interest; by implication, to dun fordebt; [idiom] debt, exact, giver of usury. - Verb - heb
- H5392 נֶשֶׁךְ - 5392 נֶשֶׁךְ - נֶשֶׁךְ - - neshek - neh'-shek - from נָשַׁךְ; interest on a debt; usury. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G5426 φρονέω - 5426 φρονέω - ΦΡΟΝΈΩ - - phronéō - fron-eh'-o - from φρήν; to exercise the mind, i.e. entertain or have a sentiment or opinion; by implication, to be (mentally) disposed (more or less earnestly in a certain direction); intensively, to interest oneself in (with concern or obedience):--set the affection on, (be) care(-ful), (be like-, + be of one, + be of the same, + let this) mind(-ed), regard, savour, think. - Verb - greek
- G5110 τόκος - 5110 τόκος - ΤΌΚΟΣ - - tókos - tok'-os - from the base of τίκτω; interest on money loaned (as a produce):--usury. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G5132 τράπεζα - 5132 τράπεζα - ΤΡΆΠΕΖΑ - - trápeza - trap'-ed-zah - probably contracted from τέσσαρες and πεζῇ; a table or stool (as being four-legged), usually for food (figuratively, a meal); also a counter for money (figuratively, a broker's office for loans at interest):--bank, meat, table. - Noun Feminine - greek