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Definition of 'bullion'English
Noun
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
(obsolete) base or uncurrent coin
* Sylvester
- And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion , go for current now.
(obsolete) showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
* Skelton
- The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound.
(obsolete) A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
( Webster 1913)
Similar to 'bullion'billion, balloon, bouillon, baleen, ballon, bollen, billon, beluin, boolean, belain, bullaun, blowen
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