bullion

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Gold or silver considered with respect to quantity rather than value.
2. n. Gold or silver in the form of bars, ingots, or plates.
3. n. A heavy lace trimming made of twisted gold or silver threads.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. 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.
2. n. Uncurrent coin; coin received only at its metallic value.
3. n. Figuratively, gold, as a sordid thing; mere wealth; mammon.
4. n. A mint or assay-office.
5. 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.
6. n. A fringe of thick twisted cords, such as will hang heavily. Bullion consisting of silk cords covered with fine gold or silver thread is much used for epaulets. Also called bullion-fringe.
7. 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).
8. n. A measure of capacity (of salt).

Wiktionary

1. n. A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
2. n. obsolete base or uncurrent coin
3. n. obsolete showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
4. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
2. n. obsolete Base or uncurrent coin.
3. n. obsolete Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
4. n. Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. gold or silver in bars or ingots
2. n. a mass of precious metal