| 单词 | small silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall silver b. Of money: of little size and low value; consisting of coins of low denomination. Now chiefly in small silver and in small change n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [adjective] > of small denomination smalla1400 loose1811 small change1890 a1400 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Egerton) (1927) l. 783 (MED) His Queene y haue..And gold and siluer grete and smal. 1423–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1423 §55. m. 31 That the maister of the mynte do smyte..half nobles, ferthynges of goold..so that the commune poeple may have recours to eschaunge for smalle gold and white moneye..For nowe littell or nought of suche small coigne is smyten. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvi. f. xxx/1 He gaue fyue florens in small money at his gate to poore folkes. 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Diiii Thou hast shewed vs none but small money. 1620 T. Gataker Good Wife 9 in T. Gataker & W. Bradshaw 2 Mariage Serm. The Kings Almoner may cast small siluer about. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 97 This small mony..is troublesome in the telling and handling. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 93 Small Money to make up any odd Sum. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxi. 249 Paid in small Money to discharge the Accounts of the Shoemaker, Taylor [etc.]. 1818 J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. 541 26 pence of the ancient small money (now, worth a carline). a1894 R. L. Stevenson St. Ives (1898) ix. 65 Here are four pounds of it in..notes, and the balance in small silver. a1974 R. Roberts Ragged Schooling (1976) vi. 67 Jim removed two shillings in small silver from his left clog. 2003 G. Reger in A. Erskine Compan. Hellenistic World (2005) xx. 348 Some of these payments may have been made in small silver. < as lemmas |
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