BULLION  , a See also:

• TERM

term applied to the See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold and See also:

• SILVER

silver of the mines brought to a See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard of purity . The word appears in an See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of 1336 in the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form " puissent sauvement See also:

• PORTER
• PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS (1843– )
• PORTER, DAVID (1780-1843)
• PORTER, DAVID DIXON (1813-1891)
• PORTER, ENDYMION (1587–1649)
• PORTER, HENRY (ft. 1596-1599)
• PORTER, HORACE (1837– )
• PORTER, JANE (1776–1850)
• PORTER, MARY (d. 1765)
• PORTER, NOAH (1811–1892)

porter a See also:

• LES

les exchanges ou bullion . . . argent en See also:

• PLATE

plate, See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel d'argent, &c."; and apparently it is connected with See also:

• BOUILLON

bouillon, the sense of " boiling " being transferred in English to the melting of See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal, so that bullion in the passage quoted meant " melting-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house " or " See also:

• MINT
• MINT (Lat. moneta; Mid. Eng. mynt)

mint." The first recorded instance of the use of the word for See also:

• PRECIOUS (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

precious metal as such in the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass is in an act of 1451 . From the use of gold and silver as a See also:

• MEDIUM

medium of See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange, it followed that they should approximate in all nations to a See also:

• COMMON

common degree of fineness; and though this is not See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform even in coins, yet the proportion of alloy in silver, and of carats alloy to carats See also:

• FINE

fine in gold, has been reduced to infinitesimal See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences in the bullion of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, and is a See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element of value even in gold and silver plate, See also:

• JEWELRY (O. Fr. jouel, Fr. joyau, perhaps from joie, joy; Lat. gaudium; retranslated into Low Lat. jocale, a toy, from jocus, by misapprehension of the origin of the word)

jewelry, and other articles of manufacture . Bullion, whether in the form of coins, or of bars and ingots stamped, is subject, as a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• RULE

rule of the See also:

• LONDON

London See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, not only to See also:

• WEIGHT

weight but to assay, and receives a corresponding value .