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To pay on
(gcide) | Pay \Pay\ (p[=a]), v. i.
To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or
satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
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The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. --Ps.
xxxvii. 21.
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2. Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or
trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the
effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will
pay to wait; politeness always pays.
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To pay for.
(a) To make amends for; to atone for; as, men often pay
for their mistakes with loss of property or
reputation, sometimes with life.
(b) To give an equivalent for; to bear the expense of; to
be mulcted on account of.
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'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your
wakings. --Beau. & Fl.
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To pay off. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(a) (Naut.) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel
under sail.
(b) to repay (a debt).
To pay on. [Etymol. uncertain.] To beat with vigor; to
redouble blows. [Colloq.]
To pay round [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) To turn the
ship's head.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
To pay one in his own coin
(gcide) | Coin \Coin\ (koin), n. [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge,
stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone,
hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin,
Cuneiform.]
1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See
Coigne, and Quoin.
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2. A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped
by government authority, making it legally current as
money; -- much used in a collective sense.
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It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the
current coin of the realm. --Hallam.
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3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
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The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is
repaid in a nobler coin. --Hammond.
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Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance.
To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind
of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him.
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