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Penny :: Penny (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

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

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

Third-penny :: Third-penny (n.) A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl..

Pinchpenny :: Pinchpenny (n.) A miserly person.

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

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

Pennyweight :: Pennyweight (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name..

Penny :: Penny (n.) See Denarius.

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

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

Farthing :: Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency..

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.

Penny :: Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds..

Tope :: Tope (n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog..

Merils :: Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris..

Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..

Lickpenny :: Lickpenny (n.) A devourer or absorber of money.

Pennywort :: Pennywort (n.) A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets..

Quadrans :: Quadrans (n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

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