单词 | fluce |
释义 | flucefloosen. An old Persian coin; a small coin of north Africa, Arabia, India, and neighbouring countries. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Persian coins daric1566 shahi1566 toman1566 fluce1584 mahmudi1612 sagittary1665 sicle1725 ashrafi1753 muhr ashrafi1753 kran1882 siglos1911 1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 213 A sort of flusses of copper. 1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 71 There money goeth by the caffala, of which 9½ maketh a doller and 60 fluse to a caffala. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 243 Cozbeg one halfe penny; Fluces are ten to a Cozbeg. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 210 5 Fluce is 1 Parrow. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Floose, the tenth part of a danim, a petty money of Bussorah and other parts of Arabia. 1877 H. M. Elliot's Hist. India VII. 345 They [sc. the Portuguese] also use bits of copper which they call buzurg, and four of these buzurgs pass for a fulús. 1906 Daily Chron. 2 May 7/6 To-day a well-dressed man, who sees a European passing in the street, extends his hand, and mutters something about ‘flus’. 1907 Daily Mail 18 Jan. 6/4 Often have I bestowed upon him a floos for bread. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † flucev. Obsolete rare. intransitive. ? To flounce, plunge. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > make sudden movement [verb (intransitive)] > jerk hotchc1440 hitch?1518 jerk1606 flounce1609 fluce1627 yarka1640 quirk1821 flip1862 1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 184 They [cattle]..backward fluce..As though the Deuill in their heeles had bin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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