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Twelvepence :: Twelvepence (n.) A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents..

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..

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

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

Dispence :: Dispence (v. i. & n.) See Dispense.

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

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

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

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

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

Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..

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

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

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

Fourpence :: Fourpence (n.) A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat..

Ninepences :: Ninepences (pl. ) of Ninepenc.

Epen :: Epen (n.) See Epencephalon.

Scudo :: Scudo (n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70..

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..

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

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