ned n.1
1. a guinea.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Discoveries (1774) 41: They ask change for a Ned or Six; if a Six, they will say, give me a Guinea, and the rest in Silver. | |
| View of Society II 27: The Queer Bit-Maker, like other industrious men, took orders for [...] fifty pounds-worth of Neds and Half Neds. | |
| Life’s Painter 141: I must go to mosque tomorrow, where I am to nab a couple of neds from the humane society. | |
| New Dict. Cant (1795). | |
 | ‘The Mill’ British Minstrelsy 111: The prigs have been dipping their mauleys into that swell’s gropus nimmed [...] his gold ticker, three one-pound screens, two neds and his reader. | |
| ‘The Mill’ Museum of Mirth 45/2: [as 1827]. | |
| Mysteries of London vol. 2 142: Mill for a ned Fight for a sovereign. | |
| , | | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
| Sl. Dict. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 6: Ned - A guinea. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/6: The essential ‘needful’ and its sister ‘Ned’. |
2. (US) a $10 gold piece.
| Clockmaker II 78: Quacks also, who make their ned out of ’em. | |
| Vocabulum. | |
| Dly Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 1 Nov. 3/3: ‘Ned’ or ‘dews’ means $10. | |
| ‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 456: Ned, A ten dollar gold piece. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 134: Ned. – A ten dollar gold piece or eagle. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
In phrases
1. ten shillings (50p).
| Life’s Painter 178: Half a guinea. Half a ned. | |
| New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: half-a-ned, A five-dollar gold piece. | |
| Sl. Dict. 235: half-ned, half-a-guinea. | |
| Dly Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 1 Nov. 3/3: A ‘beam’ is half a ned. | |
| Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 6: Half-ned, half a guinea. |
2. (US) a $5 gold piece.
| Vocabulum 40: half-a-ned A five-dollar gold piece. | |
| Sl. Dict. (1890) 17: Half-a-ned. A five-dollar gold piece. |