n. Gold or silver in the mass; gold or silver smelted and not perfectly refined, or refined but in bars, ingots, or any uncoined form, as plate.n. Uncurrent coin; coin received only at its metallic value.n. Figuratively, gold, as a sordid thing; mere wealth; mammon.n. A mint or assay-office.n. A boss; a stud; a showy metallic ornament either of gold or in imitation of gold, as a button, stud, hook, clasp, buckle, and the like.n. A fringe of thick twisted cords, such as will hang heavily.n. In glass-making, that part of the spheroidal mass of glass which has been attached to the pontil, after being blown and while undergoing the process of fattening into a sheet. When the tube is detached, it is called the bull's-eye (which see).n. A measure of capacity (of salt).