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Testone :: Testone (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents..

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

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

Pennoncelle :: Pennoncelle (n.) See Pencel.

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..

Franc :: Franc (a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes..

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) An old English silver coin, worth nine pence..

Spence :: Spence (n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

Pencel :: Pencel (n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel..

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

Fourpence :: Fourpence (n.) A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents..

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

Sharock :: Sharock (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents..

Epencephalic :: Epencephalic (a.) Pertaining to the epencephalon.

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

Ninepences :: Ninepences (pl. ) of Ninepenc.

Marc :: Marc (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence..

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

Levy :: Levy (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d..

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