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

Rap :: Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Picayune :: Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

Mail :: Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V..

Hap''penny :: Hap'penny (n.) A half-penny.

Piece :: Piece (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings..

Scrapepenny :: Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

Penny-a-liner :: Penny-a-liner (n.) One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.

Averpenny :: Averpenny (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

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

Penny :: Penny (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny..

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..

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show..

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny..

Tenpenny :: Tenpenny (a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

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

Penny :: Penny (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius)..

Get-penny :: Get-penny (n.) Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.

Bawbee :: Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.

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

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