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

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..

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

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents..

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

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

Pause :: Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

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..

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours..

Epen :: Epen (n.) See Epencephalon.

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..

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..

Ora :: Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling..

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

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

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..

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

Twopence :: Twopence (n.) A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday..

Hindbrain :: Hindbrain (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only..

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