Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LU'CRE, n. [lu'ker; L. lucrum; Fr. lucre.]

Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. – Pope. A bishop must be blameless … not given to filthy lucre. – Tit. i.