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Threepenny :: Threepenny (a.) Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean..

Pause :: Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.

Spence :: Spence (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat..

Pence :: Pence (pl. ) of Penn.

Rome Scot :: Rome scot () See Peter pence, under Peter..

Epencephalic :: Epencephalic (a.) Situated on or over the brain.

Poundage :: Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more..

Tester :: Tester (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston..

Ora :: Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling..

Sixpences :: Sixpences (pl. ) of Sixpenc.

Epen :: Epen (n.) See Epencephalon.

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

Pence :: Pence (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.

Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

Twopence :: Twopence (n.) A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday..

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents..

Epencephalon :: Epencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen..

Blank :: Blank (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence..

Sesterce :: Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents..

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