Meaning of Bullion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. Base or uncurrent coin.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.”

“And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion, go for current now.”

“To beholde how it was garnysshyd and bounde, […] The claspis and bullyons were worth a thousande pounde; […]”

“The hair was plaited with bullion and red riband, and then wound round the head, something after the fashion of a turban, save that it entirely displayed the forehead.”

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