subs. phr. (old).—Money: generic: see RHINO.
d. 1626. BACON, Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain, Preface, in Works (SPEDDING, 1860), xiii. 222. Neither is the opinion of Machiavel to be despised, who scorneth that proverb of state, taken first from a speech of Mucianus, that MONIES ARE THE SINEWS OF WAR.
1653. URQUHART, Rabelais, I. xlvi. Coin is THE SINEWS OF WAR.
