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Definition of penny

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Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds..

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Merils :: Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris..

Pickpenny :: Pickpenny (n.) A miser; also, a sharper..

Tenpenny :: Tenpenny (a.) Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n..

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (n.) Some worthless catchpenny thing.

Stives :: Stiver (n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth..

Quadrans :: Quadrans (n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

True-penny :: True-penny (n.) An honest fellow.

Sixpenny :: Sixpenny (a.) Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf..

Penny :: Penny (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

Bawbee :: Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.

Sterling :: Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used..

Bodle :: Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

Pennyroyal :: Pennyroyal (n.) An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor..

Lickpenny :: Lickpenny (n.) A devourer or absorber of money.

Earles Penny :: Earles penny () Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.

Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..

"denarius :: Denarius (n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the penny of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as..

Penny :: Penny (a.) Worth or costing one penny.

Twelvepenny :: Twelvepenny (a.) Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

Threepence :: Threepence (n.) A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.