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Sixpences :: Sixpences (pl. ) of Sixpenc.

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

Teston :: Teston (n.) A tester; a sixpence.

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

Shilling :: Shilling (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency..

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

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..

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

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

Ninepences :: Ninepences (pl. ) of Ninepenc.

Twopenny :: Twopenny (a.) Of the value of twopence.

Mill-sixpence :: Mill-sixpence (n.) A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

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

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

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

Pence :: Pence (pl. ) of Penn.

Epen :: Epen (n.) See Epencephalon.

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..

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..

Groat :: Groat (n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence..

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