Crossword-Solution: MERK 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Ihr fühlet nicht, wie schlecht ein solches Handwerk sei! Wie wenig das dem echten Künstler zieme! Der saubern Herren Pfuscherei Ist, merk ich, schon bei Euch Maxime.

For all the riches I had been possessed of a few hours previous to this, I found that here I was turned out of my lordly possessions without a single merk, or the power of lifting and commanding the smallest sum, without being thereby discovered and seized.

Other experiments of a similar kind were no less conclusive, for Merk13 perforated all ivory plaque with a pointed flint which he used as a gimlet.

But these distinctions, although rounded, no doubt, originally on real differences, are at present very inaccurate measures of the relative value of the different classes of merks; for sometimes happens that a six-penny merk is as large and productive as a twelve-penny one.

The term, by a very easy change, came, with the changes of laws, to apply to that portion of land which had originally paid a money merk of rent, but did not, and does not to this day, denote any particular spot or measurement, but merely such proportion of the whole township as had been equivalent to one money merk of rent, when the whole was valued at a given number.